It's not the end of the world, but Windows Design Language recommends a white system tray icon, and it bugs my OCD that only one of the icons on my system is not white.
It would be greatly appreciated if we could select that option in the UI tab of the options menu.
Perhaps a dropdown on the "Show Tray Icon" [White/Orange/Black]
(If you wanted to implement this only into 1.5 that would work it's what I prefer but I'd use either.)
Thanks so much I install your program by default on every machine and I love you and the great work you do.
livejamie wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 10:37 am
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With all due respect, this seems annoying for multiple computers and obscures some beautiful icons behind some Windows clunkyness.
What's the problem, to copy any icon you want into the Everything dir ?
Making it for several machines, add it to your install script or MSI file.
Btw. only because Microsoft invents new design standards doesn't make it better.
The only white idea looks strange and omits the major enhancement of using colors.
Given people have dark or light themes there should presumably be ready options to accommodate that (perhaps autodetected) and If it's a stylistic recommendation to have white that could be one of them.
BUUUUUUT this whole move in the computing field towards colourlessness and also lack of contrast is one of the most terrible assaults being imposed upon users, and it causes me to mix up all my icons by eye, particularly the speaker and wifi icons which are now near rotations of each other. Humans are creatures of colour and some degree of contrast, which is why they have such good colour vision, and icons should reflect that as the default. The default windows setting now has white windows without edges where you can't see where one thing ends and another begins, scroll bars disappear and are hard to make out when they appear, active tabs and items are barely differentiable from inactive ones... the list is endless. I'm pretty sure it won't be programmers who are pushing all these changes but daft managerial/design teams...
David
Some of the available icons in the color pack are very colorful.
It would make the more accessible to average users by allowing them to be selected in the settings of everything rather than having people dig around in Windows settings.
To copy a file in a folder does not qualify for Windows settings.
Any average user of Everything has his own customized ini settings, bookmarks ... as files to be copied in Everything folder.
One more ico file to copy in a folder does not change anything.
Beyond search, Everything is helping users to have folders/files in perfect order.
After more than 10 years of using Everything I still find files with wrong names or in wrong places, which I need to fix.
A lot of people benefitting from Everything will be users who lack file organisational skills, who are not technical people and want to find files by typing in words, without utilising the advanced abilities. They'll be using it because someone recommended they install it and they find it really helps them. It would be very useful for them to have an easy way of assigning an icon.
* I'd suggest a menu item when you click the systray is "Choose different icon", as there's plenty of menu space there, and it's a very natural place to put the option.
meteorquake wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2024 9:50 am
A lot of people benefitting from Everything will be users who lack file organisational skills, who are not technical people and want to find files by typing in words, without utilising the advanced abilities. They'll be using it because someone recommended they install it and they find it really helps them. It would be very useful for them to have an easy way of assigning an icon.
* I'd suggest a menu item when you click the systray is "Choose different icon", as there's plenty of menu space there, and it's a very natural place to put the option.
David
Nice to see somebody who feels the same way as me.
