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Seeing the new colored icons reminds of me of the debacle when Visual Studio 2012 was released. They decided to replace almost all of the icons with a monochro
by EMM_386 6y ago
Seeing the new colored icons reminds of me of the debacle when Visual Studio 2012 was released. They decided to replace almost all of the icons with a monochrome version, effectively removing the color-cues that developers were used to using for quickly finding an icon.
They eventually relented on this and started moving color back into the development environment. Now they're just tweaking the icon appearance and leaving the colors intact.
- banana_giraffe 6y agoWas VS 2012 the first release with the menu bar THAT SCREAMED AT YOU for no good reason? The first thing I did was track down a registry tweak to make the menu bar not be in all capital letters.
- EMM_386 6y agoSure was, I forgot about that one. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/a-design-with-all-caps/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/a-design-with-al...
- argomo 6y agoI remember that. They justified it by pointing to a similar all caps navigation bar on MSDN, as if that trumped some 25+ years of precedence for workstation apps. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯