Use a colored speaker icon for AudioStreamPlayers

[mieldepoche]

Describe the project you are working on

prototypes

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

This is the "formal" proposal version of a discussion that I created a few days ago.

Those 3 icons only differ by a tiny color dot and I find them not symbolic enough to be pleasant to read.
As a bonus, the music notation used in the icon is, well, a music notation, not something related to sound in general.

Currently, the icon is made up of 2 parts:

1. the multi-colored note, this gradient having the "sound" meaning,
2. a small colored play icon, colored according to the spatialness of the node.

My point of view is the following:

• the gradient is useless. A good icon would convey the audio part much more naturally than the current design.
• the spatial part is way too small to be useful.

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

• Use an actual speaker icon instead
• Color it fully according to spatiality: either white for AudioStreamPlayer, blue for AudioStreamPlayer2D or red for AudioStreamPlayer3D
• Keep the gradient in AudioStreams since there is no common icon for them (some use the note, some don't)

Basically use the same icon as most other software:

blender	ubuntu	unity	godot, in the 3D view

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

a good icon would have to be designed by someone competent.

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

It's used in 99% of godot projects.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

it's core already

[AllergenStudios]

This is a great idea! I do also find that the differences are hard to spot, and seeing they are 2D and 3D nodes I think they should definitely be designed as one instead.

For the main audio stream player that is not 2d or 3d related, I think it should be done like the world environment

[mieldepoche]

For the main audio stream player that is not 2d or 3d related, I think it should be done like the world environment

I don't agree, the Environment icon is blue and red because it can affect both 2D and 3D visuals (iirc), but the non-positional AudioStreamPlayer is not "both 2D and 3D", it's non-dimentional, hence the necessity for the white color imo.

[RadiantUwU]

This seems very straight-forward to implement, all we need is... the svgs....

[mieldepoche]

icons.zip

Here are the icons I used for my screenshot.
They are derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Speaker_Icon.svg iirc which seem to be cc0, but I don't know if they fit the godot style. The sound lines are a bit thin I think (especially compared to the AudioListener's line thickness), and I don't have the skill needed to improve them.

[RadiantUwU]

Just a note, it's gonna go in 4.4 due to 4.3 already being in feature freeze