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Improved automatic selection of icons for software licenses?
Hello.
Today I started using 1Password for storing the software licences I manage in one place. I was excited to see the generic icon changing to a Windows 11 icon when I typed "Windows 11" in the entry name:
But then came dissapointment, because the icon changes only when the name of the entry is exactly "Windows 11". I would expect a fuzzier match for choosing the right icon. E.g. all of the following should automatically pick the Windows 11 icon.
Moreover, it would be great if in addition to "Choose a new icon" which lets me pick an icon from my files, there was a second option that allows me to browse the icons bundled with 1Password.
Can I hope for these improvements?
1Password Version: 8.9.5
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OS Version: Windows 10
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Referrer: forum-search:https://1password.community/search?Search=icon%20license
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DenalB. What an excellent idea. I have Just found a piece of free software that lets me extract *.ico files from *.exe files. where I don't have an *ico file listed. What I like about the software is it also lets me save the file as *.ico and not *.bmp or *.jpg
@1P: Two things I have found as I manually changed some icons in 1P on my Windows PC
Firstly, when I changed the icon and saved the record the icon changed for the record but not in the list of Software on the left hand side. For that to change I had to back out of 1P and come back in again. Thinking about it, maybe I didn't have to back out of 1P but just changing the category from Software to Favourites and back again would have had the same effect. No that didn't work. I've just changed another icon and had to back out to get the List of software to update.
Secondly. Sometimes when I saved the record I got an error message saying something like "The Software can't be saved" and something about encryption. I'm sorry I did not catch the complete error message. Anyway the error message was an error in itself because the record did save although the new icon did not show until I selected another record and than went back to the first one. In that case too the left side list did not change as in point 1.
Reading what I've written makes me feel I've been a bit muddled in my explanation. Feel free to tell me if it's not clear.
Hey @mstamat !
That's why I changed all my icons manually by myself. Also, I do this when creating a new entry, no matter what entry this is. It is a bit of work, but you only have to do this once. I have a folder on my drive where all the icons are stored. So when creating a new entry and need the same icon I already used, I'm able to select it.
Here's how my software license entries look like.
ag_mike_d1Password Team
On behalf of Jack, you're most welcome! 👍
Thanks for forwarding my feedback to the team Jack_P_1P ! Hope we have the improvements in a near-future update :)
Jack_P_1PHey @mstamat:
Thanks for your feedback on this! I can definitely see how the matching could be improved here, as well as the ability to manually search for an icon. While I can't promise anything, I've shared your thoughts with the team!
Jack
ref: IDEA-I-1854
ref: IDEA-I-1855
