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Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-sir-I-don't-like-it dept.

jones_supa writes A lot of people got upset about the flat looks of Modern UI presented in Windows 8. Recent builds of Windows 10 Technical Preview have now started replacing the shell icons, and to some people they are just too much to bear. Basically, Microsoft opted to change the icons in search of a fresh and modern look, but there are plenty of people out there who claim that all these new icons are actually very ugly and the company would better stick to the previous design. To find out what people think about these icons, Softpedia asked its readers to tell their opinion and the messages received in the last couple of days pretty much speak for themselves. There are only few testers who think that these icons look good, but the majority wants Microsoft to change them before the final version of the operating system comes out.

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  1. Re:Flat Look may be ugly, but it is useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can always turn off the effects for VMs and remote connections. For local use, effects like transparency and whatnot do not introduce any kind of penalty. Even the slowest GPUs (all the way to GMA950) have been able to do it without any perceivable slowdown. Windows is very well optimized in this regard.

  2. Bugs in Win 7 UI by CaptainOfSpray · · Score: 5, Informative

    "after releasing Windows 7"

    So the bugs in Win 7 UI were actually created by Microsoft people?

    1. In Win 7, open Windows Explorer
    2. Get a list of files up.
    3. Delete a file
    4. Whoa, the file is STILL THERE in the list
    5. Delete it again
    6. Whoa, ERROR MESSAGE "file not found" - if so, why is it listed?

    That's a fundamental breach of the user paradigm. No previous Windows has ever done anything so mindlessly wrong.

    This shit is why I decided to stay with XP till the end, and then moved to Linux Mint Cinnamon. Which was an excellent move - it runs lighter and faster on my hardware than XP ever did, and looks and feels a lot more like the UI that I already knew than Win 7, Win 8, Win 8.1 does.

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    1. Re:Bugs in Win 7 UI by dissy · · Score: 4, Informative

      3. Delete a file
      4. Whoa, the file is STILL THERE in the list

      Err, wut?

      I manage around 150 Win7 machines at work, and have 4 of them at home, and never once seen the behavior you are describing.

      Are you sure there isn't more involved with recreating that? Have you seen this on more than one Win7 computer?

      When I use explorer to delete a file, it is removed from the file list and placed in the recycle bin folder for that drive, just as has been the case for some time now.

      If explorer is open to a remote file server it still removes the file from the list when deleted, just skipping the recycle bin part of things.
      (Not to mention my complaint about a confirmation prompt being there when the recycle bin is used and so recovery is possible, and NO confirmation when deleting on a file share despite no recovery of the file being possible by default, which always seemed bas-ackward to me)
      But you didn't mention browsing to a remote file share, the default explorer will open to your homedir or drive root typically on your system drive.

    2. Re:Bugs in Win 7 UI by CreatureComfort · · Score: 4, Informative

      No previous Windows has ever done anything so mindlessly wrong.

      That is just factually incorrect. The list of mindlessly wrong things previous versions of Windows have done is worthy of it's own miniseries.

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  3. Re:If users complain about Windows X icons... by Warbothong · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a classic case of Bike Shedding.

    "These icons look crappy"
    "Thanks for the feedback. What do you think about the switch to user-mode signed driver binaries?"
    "No idea. But these icons look crappy"

  4. Re:Do it like Linux by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'll throw some screenshots here so people can compare easily.

    - Windows 3.1
    - Windows 95
    - Windows 7
    - Windows 10 new icons from the article
    - Windows 10 new Recycle Bin and Control Panel icons

  5. Re:If you hate Change so much...... by Carewolf · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're more in line with current gui design. They want to appear a bit more modern i guess.

    They look like hires versions of early 1990s icons to me, not modern in any way.

  6. Visual Studio by BradleyUffner · · Score: 4, Informative

    This happened a few years ago for the iconography in Visual Studio (2010 I believe) too, and the users were up in arms. It took what felt like a tremendous amount coordinated feedback over a very long time to get some very small concessions from Microsoft. If you don't like it you had better start letting them know about it now and en-mass, because this decision will have a LOT of inertia behind it. It won't be easy to get them to change their minds at this point.