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

[Mathias Hasselmann]

I just peeked over the fence. Is this about the dark frame theme? It's 
incomplete and doesn't blend well with Ubuntu's curvy Ambience theme, 
but actually I liked the look: The old icons feel very outdated after 
that short peeking, and I can see how such adoptions are needed to fit 
into today's Windows or OSX. Switching back for now because of the 
issues, but suddenly my desktop feels very oldish.

Keep on the good work and don't let the naysayers discourage you.

Ciao,
Mathias

Am 04.03.2016 um 19:42 schrieb 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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