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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

What, you're using icons instead of doing everything with keyboard 
shortcuts? :-P


On 04/03/16 20:42, Mike Jackson wrote:
> <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.