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Handle transparency in Team icons. Currently an image with transparency will display transparent areas black.

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  • Gustavo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Come on... this is basic functionality. If only MS used UWP or WIN UI for the Windows version it would have been a given.

    Shame MS doesn't support its prime desktop dev tooling for its own platform.

    Re targeting other versions you could have used Xamarin.

    I can only imagine the man hours it took to get to where we are today (huge improvements on the app over the past year)!

    I reckon a solution based on C# / UWP / Xamarin would have been certainly faster / cheaper / more reliable.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Having icons adapted to the white interface is okay, but as soon as you switch to the dark mode, things just look really ugly! Having transparency would really improve that a lot.

  • Dragan Alexandru commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Still not working as expected at the end of 2019. Had to replace transparent background with white one to reduce the ugly look.

  • Artur commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I understand why would one not bother with svg but a png with transparency doesn't sound like something that you have to go out of your way to support.

  • Filip commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Wow, this has been an issue since the release?
    That's embarrassing.

  • Sebastian commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hm. Not really a complicated thing to be done, isn't it? Just transparency! Do it. :)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Crazy from a multi-billion dollar company like Microsoft. Does not inspire trust that the development of this app is in good hands.

  • Jonathon Wyza commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This needs to be a thing. Not sure how in 2019 _any_ image display system wouldn't handle transparency.

  • Torben commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am very surprised this was not supported in the first place. For me a must have. Want the same representation as in share point and other products and documents for groups.
    please get it in.

  • Dave Belmore commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm not even a real web developer, but even I was using transparent backgrounds in the 90s.
    Totally fail to understand why my transparent logo does not work in Teams in the year 2019.

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