Feature Suggestions

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Just picked up Groupy and really liking it so far. I would like to propose a few enhancements that would be very helpful.

1) When automatically grouping two windows, provide a settings option to restrict grouping to windows that have the same process name. I like to group by application but I keep unintentionally grouping different programs together. I found the option to enable this but it was very easy to miss in the settings (see #3 below). Maybe give the option to override this restriction so that we can combine two different applications as needed?

2) Provide an option to exclude a grouping by window title and parts of the title. Your competitor does this and it's very useful. Here is an example. I am a software developer and frequently need to open the browser's debug tools in a separate window so I can work with them side-by-side.  It breaks my workflow to have the debug window open as a tab. If I could configure the Groupy settings to automatically group a new window from an application (which it already does) while also being able to exclude a window whose title starts with "Developer Tools", that would greatly increase the flexibility and power of Groupy.

3. As other people have commented in this forum, the color contrast in the settings makes it very difficult to determine what is actionable. By that I mean the "off" state of the checkmarks are too light. A lot of people have a difficult time with contrast issues. 

Thanks!

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hello,

I have forwarded your report to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations.

Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates.

We really do appreciate your feedback, thanks.

 

AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

With regards to the colours are you able to provide a screenshot showing the problem as it should automatically pick from your OS accent colour.

Have you set your accent colour to something incredibly light?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I am using the default color settings and have not made any adjustments. 

Here is an analysis of the contrast: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=E5E5E6&bcolor=FFFFFF 

From an accessibility viewpoint, it fails.

 

Here is the screenshot that you requested:

 

Now, it's true that once you know where the check boxes are and figure out the color scheme, it's easy to find them again. But it was too easy to miss them as a new user and I almost went with the different software application as a result.