Windows 11 Style Icon

[D-Arora]

Could you please add the option for a Windows 11 style icon. Thanks! Love your work!

[riverar]

Can you elaborate on what you're referring to as "Windows 11 style icon"? Thanks!

[D-Arora]

Thanks for the feedback @riverar, I definitely agree with the blending into windows rule. I think limiting the customisable icons to windows dll/system icons would be the way to go. That said some of the legacy windows icons (like system sounds) just haven't been restyled yet so I might make some alternatives that have updated styles.

P.S. By dev do you mean the dev branch? Or a debug build?

[riverar]

dev branch, sorry for the confusion.

[D-Arora]

I thought of some additional functionality + questions and wanted your feedback.

1. [Feature] As a new feature, has the dev team considered the ability to drag and drop apps between audio devices
2. [Feature] Renaming audio devices. Use case is when connected to docks/displays which have long model numbers as output names.
3. How do you access Eartrumpet Actions? Does it just move certain apps to specific outputs on launch? The presets idea I had was more along the lines of moving a group of user specified apps on demand with preset buttons. The use case for this would be if a user had headphones connected but needed to show someone a video or a song. They could make a preset button to move only their browser and spotify to the device speakers and then toggle it back.
4. For the Windows 11 style changes, would you prefer if they could be toggled for windows 10 users? Because right now my implementation just has them baked in.

[D-Arora]

Hi @riverar or other devs, any feedback on these questions? Thanks!

[riverar]

@D-Arora Haven't forgotten about you. Let's see.

1. We considered drag/drop but at the time it was thought to be very complex to support. There's a lot of design work that has to go into it -- Should this support touch? Is it accessible? Does RTL or high DPI have any impact to this feature? Do the items slide around as you drag or is there a divider line that appears? What if the flyout is collapsed? What if it's too tall? Where do folks grab the row to drag? Nearly all the surfaces are either buttons or click/touch targets...

   It's not off the table though so if you'd like to think through all that and propose something, that'd be great.

2. You can rename renderers in Windows today (via the legacy Sounds dialog). But yeah, agree, would be nice to support full rename. Both the display name and device name are properties that should be settable, so the backend is easy. The harder part is frontend + localization.

3. Install a dev build and it'll appear in EarTrumpet Settings. You then have an IFTTT-like grammar to work with. It's easier to not try to explain and just encourage you to try it out. 🙃

4. Windows 11 style changes should only be visible for Windows 11 users. Windows 10 users should not be able to enable those styles. We have a pretty robust theming component (see dev docs) that should make this easy. I recently added Windows 11 OS detection to it as well.

[Baxmann]

Since I find it semi-related, I would like to bring up the suggestion to change right click to match Windows 11.

[diego-gz]

I also have the similiar idea, the icon on the taskbar is also kinda odd if put beside other windows 11 icons & dropdown