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

[Mike Jackson]

Looks like before that change set. I'll give master another go and see 
what it looks like now.

-- 
Mike Jackson
> Portale Alessandro <mailto:Alessandro.Portale at theqtcompany.com>
> March 7, 2016 at 6:30 AM
>
> *From:*Qt-creator 
> [mailto:qt-creator-bounces+alessandro.portale=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org] 
> *On Behalf Of *Mike Jackson
> *Sent:* Friday, March 4, 2016 7:43 PM
> *To:* qt-creator at qt-project.org
> *Subject:* [Qt-creator] QtCreator 4.0: Where did my color icons go
>
> <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.
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thank you for the feedback. Do your comments refer to the state before 
> or after this change: https://codereview.qt-project.org/147723/?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Alessandro
>

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