Fixed taskbar icon not appearing correctly in Windows

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 - Fixed folder and filename sanitization to properly handle OS-specific illegal characters (Windows, Linux, macOS), ensuring compatibility across all platforms when creating chapter folders and files.
 - Fixed `/` and `\` path display by normalizing paths.
 - Fixed book reprocessing issue where books were being processed every time the chapters window was opened, improving performance when reopening the same book.
+- Fixed taskbar icon not appearing correctly in Windows.
 - Improvements in code and documentation.
 
 # 1.1.9

README.md

@@ -146,6 +146,8 @@ Here’s Abogen in action: in this demo, it processes ∼3,000 characters of tex
 
 > Special thanks to [@jborza](https://github.com/jborza) for chapter support in PR [#10](https://github.com/denizsafak/abogen/pull/10)
 
+> Special thanks to [@mleg](https://github.com/mleg) for adding `Line` option in subtitle generation in PR [#94](https://github.com/denizsafak/abogen/pull/94)
+
 | Book handler options | Description |
 |---------|-------------|
 | **Chapter Control** | Select specific `chapters` from ePUBs or markdown files or `chapters + pages` from PDFs. |

abogen/main.py

@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     print("PyQt5 not installed.")
 
+# Set application ID for Windows taskbar icon
+if platform.system() == "Windows":
+    try:
+        from abogen.constants import PROGRAM_NAME, VERSION
+        import ctypes
+        app_id = f"{PROGRAM_NAME}.{VERSION}"
+        ctypes.windll.shell32.SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID(app_id)
+    except Exception as e:
+        print("Warning: failed to set AppUserModelID:", e)
+
 from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
 from PyQt5.QtGui import QIcon
 from PyQt5.QtCore import qInstallMessageHandler, QtMsgType
@@ -86,13 +96,6 @@ def qt_message_handler(mode, context, message):
 # Install the custom message handler
 qInstallMessageHandler(qt_message_handler)
 
-# Set application ID for Windows taskbar icon
-if platform.system() == "Windows":
-    import ctypes
-
-    app_id = f"{PROGRAM_NAME}.{VERSION}"
-    ctypes.windll.shell32.SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID(app_id)
-
 # Handle Wayland on Linux GNOME
 if platform.system() == "Linux":
     xdg_session = os.environ.get("XDG_SESSION_TYPE", "").lower()