Improve visual separation for audio and subtitles icons

[Keith94]

Expected behavior of the wanted feature

• Change the audio icon to headphones sound wave.
• Change the subtitles icon to "fluent comment text"

Replacement font: modernz-icons-replacement.zip

mpv_rKbAadxVMB.mp4

[Samillion]

The icon itself looks really nice.

My thoughts:

• The second I saw it, I thought audio settings not audio tracks
• Will a non-box shape audio tracks button look out of place here? or in modern-compact?

Genuinely have no idea which would be better though.

[Keith94]

The second I saw it, I thought audio settings not audio tracks

Can be a mix of both; right click brings up audio devices list. Anyway it conveys "audio" better than current icon.

Will a non-box shape audio tracks button look out of place here? or in modern-compact?

No because some of the icons, such as loop, have curves already. Not all boxy.

[Samillion]

Good points.

I'm all for what everyone agrees on.

[yannikthegenius]

It looks good 👍

[nekoxuee]

mpv recently added fluent icons and use /c_fluent_chat_24_regular.svg for the audio tracks, so it could be also an option.

[Samillion]

mpv recently added fluent icons and use /c_fluent_chat_24_regular.svg for the audio tracks, so it could be also an option.

Their pick is not better, to be honest. Seeing it only reminds me of messages. To be exact, what I mean is what we currently have, in my opinion, is much better than that.

[Keith94]

The only decent alternative I could find for "audio track selection" would be something like a microphone icon. Other than that I have no ideas.

[Samillion]

The first two (in the second picture) seem to be a good fit.

Would be awesome if we can add the microphone in the current icon, so we can have the best of both. A sound wave indicator and a mic.

Edit:
I just realized I'm way biased for the sound wave look 😆 I have no idea why.

It just makes more sense in my head for it to be a sound wave and not lines that indicates "text", when it's audio.

[Keith94]

I just realized I'm way biased for the sound wave look

Same, I could not find a better alternative. The current pick is not offensive anyway.