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I'm sorry, but I use color to locate things. This, to me, is a disaster. If this isn't a problem for other people, fine, but it's a problem to me. A better solution would have been to use less color and desaturated tones rather than simply going to full on black and white, which serves only to rob the IDE of potential visual cues. This is like using a cannon to kill a bird. Just because they overcolorized VS2010 for no apparent reason doesn't mean they need to overcompensate in the opposite direction. I can't use this until someone comes up with color-based icons for it.

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Agreed. I use colours and shapes to at-a-glance distinguish between icons. If there are more than two or three icons two similarly coloured side-by-side, I find it pretty hard to tell them apart without having to think about it.

Completely agree. The new design looks horrible. It seems they've removed any use of shading/colour to let you know whats happening to not 'overload the user'.

Just reducing the contrast would have been enough. And if there wasn't a direct comparison between the coloured icons and the b/w ones, I would have no idea what the b/w ones would do.

I am really no person who digs colourful designs - but these screenshots look just depressing for me. I never knew how much I liked those old icons.

In my case I love the dark theme.

A better solution is not to compromise as you propose, a better solution is to make this easily customizable, so both of us can use what we prefer.

I wonder if Microsoft isn't doing this as a subtle way to get developers mindset away from "old style" window's applications and into a Metro mindset.

I doubt it, it's just a redesign by people who aren't very good. Metro, otoh, looks good.

Even the blue they've chosen conflicts with the gray.

It just looks shit.

Suggestion: you may want to explore keyboard shortcuts.

Good or bad, I use color to navigate as well.

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