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2021/03/25 11:50:09 (permalink)
Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 | TechPowerUp
 
Microsoft is testing a user-interface refresh with an upcoming update to Windows 10. Released for testing with Insider Preview Build 21343, the refresh includes new system icons that are of a significantly different design scheme from the ones you have now. System folders (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music, etc.,) now come with color-coded icons resembling something from a Windows-knockoff Linux desktop environment. The graphics of the icons appear simpler, and this simplicity probably has something to do with the emergence of remote-desktop/virtual-desktop, where simpler graphics are easier on the network bandwidth, particularly on the side of the VDI server. The current system icons of Windows 10 are evolved from those of previous Windows versions.
 
Quite honestly in my opinion a refresh of the entire user interface is long overdue. 

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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/25 12:05:18 (permalink)
    Meh, not a fan...I hope they let me have the option to keep the old style.
     
    I hate it when  I can't control my own GUI.
     

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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/26 09:10:27 (permalink)
    Ah, how's that saying go ... if it ain't broke don't fix it.
     




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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/26 10:06:37 (permalink)
    Another update... another stab at being more like OSX.



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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/26 10:21:10 (permalink)
    could care less - fix important stuff, not icons

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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/26 11:42:49 (permalink)
    Lipstick on a pig.

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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/26 12:10:27 (permalink)
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    Lipstick on a pig.




     
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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/26 15:39:25 (permalink)
    This is exciting news-. 


     

     
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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/26 16:24:35 (permalink)
    I was pretty sure I read somewhere that the users could pick the color that they wanted for a folder to make it easier to find a folder based on the color.

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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/26 20:57:34 (permalink)
    Let's see what Greta has to say....
     
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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/27 21:02:35 (permalink)
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    Re: Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10 2021/03/28 07:33:29 (permalink)
    Fluent icons, able to flow freely articulately smoothly and gracefully. Accept the new icons will no longer provide a preview of a folder's contents. Although not a bid deal still a loss of functionality and a step back.
     

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