Why does the window icon still look like a fridge?
When the icon set contains proper window icons:
Home assistant doesn’t make the icons they use the Material Design Icons
Different window designs are more common in different parts of countries and in the world…
You have an option, the DEFAULT is very common in newer construction in north America and other parts of the world it is a vertical sliding window with a latch.
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That’s my point, I don’t.
I can change the device class (to door, garage door, light, etc.) but there is no device class for non-sliding windows.
But you can change the icon
I was thinking the same thing but I don’t think the open and close change works with that variant.
only when its in a specific state though, right?
You cannot change both the on and off-icons, only one of them, right?
That could be true.
The fact that the customisation of entities icon is limited to just one icon annoys me a lot. Yes, you can select any icon you want, but then you lose the state reflected by icon change.
It depends? I think the naming has to be exact…
Example door has “door”, “door-closed” and “door-open”
window has window-closed and window-open
I believe any icon with the x-closed, x-open will work…
however the above alternate window icon is window-closed-variant and window-open-variant where the state is in the middle not the end.
IIRC door-sliding and door-sliding-open open work?
Haven’t tested in a while.
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No, it doesn’t work like this. I even tested it now too be sure. The icons reflecting state can only be the default icon. You can change it by changing the service class. But there is only one windows device class with the default window icon.
So technically a solution for this WTH would be too make a new device class for different window icon. But I would really prefer more customisation.
I created a new, now general WTH for this:
Sounds like we just need a device class to cover that icon set.
My windows look like the window in the current icon.
Most people in the world are not Americans. The default should be changed to better reflect that.
You’re assuming most people in the world have windows that you have, I highly doubt that is the case. We simply need more device class options for cover so everyone can be happy. There’s no reason to change the default.
No, I am not assuming that. What I do know is that the icon we use currently does not look like a window at all to a huge portion of the world.
I don’t want to enforce the icon that looks most like my window. I want to pick one that is immediately recognized as a window by the most amount of people (preferably everyone).
That would be changing the default 
Amend, don’t break.
That would be changing the default
Yes, that is what I said. Regardless if we add icon customization in the future, the default should be changed. Home Assistant is an international product, and therefore its terminology and look should be accommodating to the international audience to the best of its ability.
That would be breaking existing user setups for no-reason. Historically, people get really upset when their defaults change. Sorry, but I’m not going to agree with you on this.
Americans account for over 75 thousand (known) users of HA and they are the largest user group in HA at over 17% of the current user base.
That would also be fixing even greater number of users setup. 17% < 83%.
Besides it doesn’t actually break any functionality, just the look gets updated.
One compromise path might be to set the default icon based on the user locale. But I honestly don’t think it is that necessary, Americans can just get over their icon looking slightly different. As long as they can tell the icon represents a window, I would not worry about it.