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Aiyah
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1 hour ago

Please make the system tray icon customizable to comply with OS design standards (monochrome)

1Password has been flip-flopping between colorful and monochrome system tray icons and is now in an inconsistent state across operating systems. Please let us select between the colorful icon and the monochrome one. By catering to one set of users, you have isolated others. Your "evolving our design language across 1Password to create a more consistent experience." reasoning is flawed by the mere fact that you do not have a consistent design across OSes. A more "cohesive and predictable experience" would be an app that actually looks like it belongs in the OS you are using, rather than standing out as the sole exception.

Regarding consistency, on MacOS, you follow the OS standard of a monochrome tray icon which looks native:

But on Linux and Windows, we are forced to use the colorful option, which at least on KDE does not align with the design standards. Frankly the colorful icon does not comply with Windows design standards either:

While we're on the topic of native integration, the Safari plugin also ditches the native monochrome icon, again diverting from OS design standards, which was a strange decision considering it used to be compliant on older versions:

Current:

 

Compliant:

This was the behavior of 1Password 7, but ever since 8 you have forced the full color icon down our throats, design guidelines be damned.

This was brought up years ago, but for some reason my account was deactivated, so my comment is now marked as "anonymous".

Choices are good, for those who would rather focus on visibility they can opt-in to the color icon, for those who prefer consistent design, the monochrome icon should be available - arguably by default.

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    Aiyah
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    Forgot to link KDE system tray design standards: 

    https://develop.kde.org/hig/icons/monochrome/status/