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Give the app an icon that is about this app - #2

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Picks Console from the ten proposals: a window with a title bar and a pulse inside it. A desktop tool watching the machine, with no metaphor to decode.

It replaces src-tauri/icon-variants/ — thirty-one drawings of Tux holding a diploma, which belonged to the exam trainer this repository used to be.

One change from the proposal

The sheet drew the window as an outline with the pulse in #ff5d5d on the blue plate. Extracted from the generated .ico, the 16 × 16 entry lost the pulse to a smudge — the size Windows uses in the title bar and Alt-Tab.

So the window is a solid white panel and the pulse sits on it in the app's own #e7000b. The red that was too dark against the blue plate is exactly right against white, and the mark survives every size in the icon:

icon.ico carries 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 256
verified by extracting each PNG from the .ico and looking at it

Also

scripts/set-icon.ps1 no longer picks between candidates — there is one source now, and it regenerates every size from src-tauri/app-icon.svg.

src-tauri/icons.bak/ is left alone: it is untracked, so removing it is not something this branch can undo.

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A window with a title bar and a pulse inside it: a desktop tool watching
the machine, without a metaphor to decode. It replaces thirty-one
candidate drawings of Tux holding a diploma, which belonged to the exam
trainer this repository used to be.

Drawn for the size it is hardest at rather than the size it looks best
at. An outlined frame with the pulse in red on blue lost the pulse
entirely at 16 px, so the window is a solid white panel and the pulse
sits on it in the app's own #e7000b — the red that was too dark against
the plate is exactly right against white.

`set-icon.ps1` no longer picks between candidates; there is one source
now, and it regenerates every size from it.
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