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jonaskohl / CapsLockIndicator

A small utility that indicates the state of the Num lock, Caps lock and Scroll lock key.
https://cli.jonaskohl.de/
Apache License 2.0
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To allow to change icon colors or to allow inactive icons disapear (but keep their place) #122

Closed rarapost closed 2 years ago

rarapost commented 2 years ago

First of all I'd like to thank you for very good ans useful application.

I have such improvement idea: It would be great if it were possible to let inactive icons "desapear" from the indicator panel (and let only active icon to be visible), but keep the icon place (to prevent icons movement) - i.e. something like to let icon get transparent. This would better emulate the "classic" LED indicators on the keyboards.

One way how to achieve this (the simplest and best by me :) ) could be to allow to set custom colors for the icons - similarly to the overlay indicator (for me it would have also another benefit - I would like to change colors of the "active" icon to more contrast - possibly brighter against the inactive one :) ).

For most people is (by my experience) more comfortable and faster to look at fixed position - where they expect some indicators - than looking for the icon at various places.

jonaskohl commented 2 years ago

Hiding the icon when the corresponding key is inactive is possible by setting the "off" icon to a blank icon file (see sample file: blank.ico).

To change the colors of the icons, you'll need to create custom icons with a graphic software of your choice.

More about loading custom icons can be found in this knowledge base article: https://cli.jonaskohl.de/kb/?a=icons

rarapost commented 2 years ago

That's great - Thank you

jonaskohl commented 2 years ago

I assume the issue has been resolved, thus I will close this issue now.