There is a reason why I memorized most of the keyboard shortcuts. So that I don't have to learn new icons on each release.
While I'm quite happy with monochrome icons, please make them more meaningful. The comment/uncomment icon is a classic example of icons that don't make sense. Sent from my Windows Phone 7 On 24/02/2012, at 16:44, Bill McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > <image001.png> > > Take the comment/uncomment icons. WTF are they meant to represent? > > </rant> > > It symbolises mankind’s struggle to represent things in black and white ;) > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of mike smith > Sent: Friday, 24 February 2012 4:35 PM > To: ozDotNet > Subject: Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts? > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:15 PM, David Kean <[email protected]> wrote: > > We showed off the new look today: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/ > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > I agree, somewhat, about the colour, but feel you've gone too far towards > monochrome. And if you make me learn a new set of damned icons, I won't use > the bloody thing. This is one thing I wish Microsoft would stop tinkering > with. Icons, menu layouts, dialog layouts. Some of us don't move on > completely from one version to another, but use 3 different versions of VS. > Do you have any idea how painful this is? > > > > Take the comment/uncomment icons. WTF are they meant to represent? > > </rant> > > > > -- > Meski > > http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv > > "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll > get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
