WTH does the window icon still look like a fridge?

Month of "What the heck?!"
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And changing user interfaces is the most disliked thing about HA updates. 2nd is changing defaults where users have to adjust settings.

local based icons would be nice, but I have doubts that it would ever happen.

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Reading this very interesting proposal, the other mentioned WTH and searching around the forum for similar posts, I feel the needs of @AndreKR and others. As being a HA user for some years I see three use cases behind this proposal/WTH:

  1. As a new user I would have felt cozy If either I could have chosen a somehow local icon set in the setup process or later on the General page as I would define my currency symbol …
  2. As a frequent user of my HA I like to adjust my icon set to my concrete surroundings, because even in my town we have different windows, heating systems, … in each house.
  3. As a frequent user I like to exchange one sensor icon (for every state) to reflect its special characteristics.

As also being a developer I see the architectural problem that rises from just these 3 use cases, even influencing each other.

Does anybody even know a good example from a user perspective not a developer one how such a thing could be resolved (without making it a configuration nightmare for all users)? Really interested :slight_smile:

I guess the easiest for 1 and 2 would be to let the user exchange the whole set “manually”. But that’s already to technical and goes off topic with this WTH.

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I didn’t mean to change the default by the way, just give an option. That said, it’s currently 74k US installation vs. 72k German installations, we can talk about changing the default again when we have caught up with you guys. :smiley:

There is already a device class selector:

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However the core team has made it clear that they don’t want another device class, although I don’t really get the reasons for that.

So the two icon solution from WTH can't we define two icons? would probably be the easiest way to solve this.

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Agreed probably the BEST way too.

Dev is correct to limit device classes - they don’t want - need to support that many. After all at its core icon is only a feature of device class.

However if it has two icons! Enabled/disabled then WTH can’t I see /define them

Heck just give me a simple settings page called customization

In there let me set all the styles for the theme
Background picture and colors
Squares or rounded
Icon size
How much bevel on my corner.
How fast the pulse is on the pulse css.
Show all the device classes with thier icon and an icon picker

(basically all of this is just editing the default theme and icon pickers for each icon enabled and icon disabled in device classes.)

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