Different app icons for more profiles, way of disabling badge on app icon

Vlad

frin How do we surface it better?

frin

Vlad I think it would be better if it were part of the edit profile dialog. That way it can be configured per profile. Right now I am not sure if it even works correctly, because as it is in the menu it makes sense to work globally for all profiles. But when I toggle it, it only removes badge on current app/window. When I switch to second profile and do the same there, it also removes badge for the second (now active) window. Might be related to those bugs where you need to restart the app/window.

Vlad

frin Great idea!

laiz

Currently, if an emoji is used as a profile icon, the dock app icon has a white backgroundd added to the profile icon:

In the RC versions prior to the release of profiles, the emoji icons had a transparent background, making the dock experience arguably more visually pleasant:

A transparent background would make some emojis look silly (thanks eirk for the picture):

The vast majority of emojis do not need a white background to display properly. Thus, I would like to suggest the following options for the profile icons in the dock app icon:

transparent background
white background
a darker alternative to the white background (or even allow the user to pick the desired color using a color picker)

eirk

Vlad

Having options for things like this sounds like a path to thousand options in the browser. We should agree to one approach.

NightRaven

I ran into an issue where the icon is white, and in the white background, it was completely invisible. In this case, with all the white on the main app icon, a transparent background would not work. Instead, the solution would be to make the background of the badge black

I would suggest 2 things:

A simple transparency switch like OP asked for .. for those who need it (this would be the only setting)
Make profile icons cause the badge background to automatically change color to avoid it blending in ... or change the white icons to be black

See below for the affected icons. Your profile icon selector has numerous categories with white-only icons

gcqd

Could we have the color palette for the icon itself ? Like :

Vlad

gcqd Are there any native apps that allow this?

gcqd

I don't know any that allows to change the icon Orion already does

Vlad

gcqd Fair point.

Vlad

How would you imagine the UI for this to look like?

gcqd

Vlad
Something like that is a good starting point I think. Maybe with a preview on hover.

Vlad

Here are some ideas about ways to execute this, feedback welcome.

ForumNinja404

Vlad Looks perfect to me. I would use the word "large" instead of big to be consistent with Apple's naming conventions.

eirk

Vlad 01 looks good. 02 feels bad because of how much information is stuffed into there

belg

Vlad
I'd go with nr 1 as well.

TheOtherKai

Vlad it should show a preview of the app icon in the corner

Vlad

Which one?

ForumNinja404

Vlad I prefer option 1.

Where it says big icon, I would switch it to large. For example, Apple uses large in accessibility settings you enable "large text"

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