[Improvment] Connection Icon Color

[T313C0mun1s7]

The new UI really looks great, and I like the new icons. However, one thing I really miss is the red and green to indicate if a particular device is currently connected to the tailnet or not. Is there any chance we can bring that back in some way? It is really nice to be able to see at a glance which ones are available or not.

Thank you.

P.S. Thank you for your hard work. The number of notifications I get daily from this project can sometimes be a little overwhelming, but it shows just how active you are. Great work. It is hard to believe sometimes that this is still considered beta software. for all intents and purposes, it works as well as I would expect for something considered a released utility.

[DeedleFake]

I actually looked into coloring the icons a bit. It wasn't possible in a simple manner as far as I could tell, but there might be some alternatives. I might be able to use CSS to color the rows themselves, for example. Or I could just add the colored emoji back in alongside the new stuff, I guess, though that could look kind of weird.

I also need to fix some more general problems with the new icons. See #227.

The number of notifications I get daily from this project can sometimes be a little overwhelming, but it shows just how active you are.

I go through waves. This recent busy of activity follows about 6+ months of almost nothing. Fixing some of the long-standing internal problems, like writing my own systray package to use from scratch so that I didn't have to use the amazingly broken API of the old one, did wonders for my motivation, though.

It is hard to believe sometimes that this is still considered beta software. for all intents and purposes, it works as well as I would expect for something considered a released utility.

Ha ha. Thanks. I'm glad it works as well as it does, considering how nasty some of the code is, though the recent overhauls have helped a lot internally in that regard. I'm also experimenting with a significantly more drastic overhaul in #231.

[T313C0mun1s7]

I just updated my computer and rebooted. When Trayscale opened on login, I noticed the red icons for the disconnected hosts. That helps visually quite a bit. Thank you.

[DeedleFake]

Uhhh, I haven't updated that yet. I don't know why you'd have red icons.

[T313C0mun1s7]

This is what I am seeing:

This is on KDE Plasma 6 (Wayland) using the Sweet-Mars QT theme and GNOME/GTK Application Style Sweet-Dark-40

[DeedleFake]

Ah. That's just an icon failing to load, which is another problem I've been working on. See #227. Your theme's backup icon that it uses to indicate a missing icon just happens to be red.

[SuchithSridhar]

Firstly, thank you @DeedleFake for all the great work!

I would like to note two things:

1. For some reason I don't see certain icons.
2. I miss the little green indicator to see which machines are online - This is actually what I use to monitor my servers (at times).

More details:

1. I have the flathub version of the application.
2. I'm running Fedora 42 on a framework 13 laptop.

Thank you once again for this project!

[SuchithSridhar]

A little request - would it be possible to select from the preferences if we want the specific icons or the little online indicator? Would that be something that's possible? Because I don't really need the icon to tell me what the machine is but I do want it to tell me if it's online.

[DeedleFake]

The missing icons are a known problem. I've also gotten feedback about the colored dots and am going to try some alternatives that are also easy to scan such as coloring the background of the row or coloring the icon.