1. Cobian's toaster notifications are a bit unsightly and don't match the OS. I would personally reduce the border radius and make the background color more neutral and remove the text shadow to make it more easily readable. Have you considered trying to integrate with native Windows 10 notifications? It could be a setting that's automatically enabled on Win10 and above, since I know older versions don't have it.
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2. I'm not a fan of the toolbar style in Reflector. Blue on yellow is a strange combination, and the drop shadows everywhere look very last-decade. As soon as I go into the visual settings and remove the drop shadow, things immediately look clearer.
3. I'd also suggest not using a red drop-shadow on the Log tab when it's flashing. It would be better to indicate that with a background color change, or a flashing icon instead.
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4. This might also have applied to Cobian Backup Gravity, but I think the task context menu could be made more intuitive by having the 'Run Selected Tasks' item appear top of the menu, since it's contextually more likely to be the user's desired choice when using the menu. Perhaps the order of the buttons on the toolbar should also be reversed?
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5. A few of the new icons are a bit confusing and I think a few alternatives could be chosen...
a) The Run Task and Run All Tasks are using the floppy disk icon which is universally understood as 'Save file'. Indeed, the same icon is used for the 'Save List As' function in the menus. I would suggest reverting to a Play icon to indicate that a task is something that runs, not saves.
b) A task's icon is represented as a clock implying that it's waiting to run, even when there's currently nothing running and nothing is scheduled to run either. Perhaps a more suitable icon can be used to indicate that a task is idle?
c) Similarly, when a task is running, it gets a cogwheel icon, but cogwheels are usually associated with a program's settings. Perhaps it would make better sense if the cogs were actually animating, but otherwise, consider using a playing icon for these too?
6. I'd suggest using Consolas or Lucida Console as default log font. These fonts render better (ClearType) and they are the preferred choice in Microsoft applications, including the command line.
7. Since Reflector uses a modern GUI library now, perhaps you can make it support Windows 10 dark mode? I don't know how tricky that would be, but I guess you'd also need some inverted color icons.
Thanks for reading!
