[Qt-creator] QtCreator 4.0: Where did my color icons go

[Mike Jackson]

<rant>
I just compiled QtCreator 4.0 and what a surprise. It seems as if the 
QtCreator team seems to have followed everyone else in UI design lately 
and tossed out 30 years of Human Computer Interaction design. Namely, 
you tossed colorful icons to go with a flat mono-chrome color palette. I 
do not understand where this comes from? We programmers have been 
fighting and waiting for years to get able to have high res icons that 
can convey information quickly and when we get that capability all the 
UI designers seem to have just given up on the concept. Color conveys 
information quickly. It lets the human brain decipher information with 
less effort than a monochrome palette. Numerous experts in the field 
have written at length about this issue and where the UI design is going 
and just how wrong it is. I urge the QtCreator team to at least include 
a theme that retains the colorful icons from QtCreator 3.x in the 4.0 
release. It is not too late.
</rant>

Let me put forth a very direct example. If you drive a white car and you 
park that car in a parking lot with 1000 other white cars of the same 
type (say 4 door passenger style cars), when you come back out to get in 
your car, unless you parked your car in a very specific spot (first or 
last) your brain needs to work much hard to remember exactly which car 
is yours. Now imagine your car is red, in that same lot of 1000 white 
cars. Finding your car is instantaneous.

Thanks for listening.
-- 
Mike Jackson

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