Thursday, March 25th 2021

Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10

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.
Source: Windows Insider Blog
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83 Comments on Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10

#76
windwhirl
rtwjunkieWow, I must have missed that bit. Folder views is a big deal to me, and I imagine others as well. How did MS arrive at the conclusion this should be eliminated?
Don't know how that happened.

Just to be clear, the file thumbnails are working fine. The problem happens with the thumbnail that used to show up for the folder itself. For example, for "Images" you had that icon of the folder half-open and it showed you two random pictures you had inside that folder. Now, it's just the folder icon.
Expected behavior:


What actually happens:

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#77
rtwjunkie
PC Gaming Enthusiast
Yeah, that’s actually a time waster, not a time saver. The decision to open a folder or move to another is often dependent for me on what the preview shows, Having to open each one, assuming one’s folder naming was lazy/not very good, is just bad.
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#78
windwhirl
rtwjunkieYeah, that’s actually a time waster, not a time saver. The decision to open a folder or move to another is often dependent for me on what the preview shows, Having to open each one, assuming one’s folder naming was lazy/not very good, is just bad.
Agreed. I made the clarification just in case someone skimped over the thread and thought that all thumbnails for everything were broken.
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#79
8BitZ80
There's plenty of naysayers, but I actually think the new icons look really nice. They add a welcome dash of color and style back into the Windows OS.
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#80
windwhirl
PooPipeBoyThere's plenty of naysayers, but I actually think the new icons look really nice. They add a welcome dash of color and style back into the Windows OS.
I don't mind really. I just wish they had not broken the folder content preview feature.
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#81
MarsM4N
Windows was totally unstable, insecure, slow, resource hungry & ugly to look at. From Win8 on they added Defender, did a complete core code overhall to make it less resource hungry & stable, and changed the windows style. So I thought they get their crap together now. But looking at these icons, I can only shake my head. Looks like Win7 times. :shadedshu: Don't get why they the minimalist 2D icons line from the system settings.

Got a new 1TB Samsung 860 EVO laying around, where I plan a dual boot with Win10 & Manjaro KDE, so I can take a break from sickening Windows. For the time. Eyeballing with the MacMini as a daily driver, but going to wait for v2 when all the minor bugs are fixed. Such a sexy little thing. Windows only on the gaming rig, at least in full screen gaming mode you can't see Microsoft's mess. :D
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#82
Atomic77
I think giving Windows 10 some more color is awesome.
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#83
AsRock
TPU addict
windwhirlNo software is bug-free. Specially not when said piece of software is literally millions of lines of code big.

And people with issues will always be way louder than the rest that runs Windows (or whatever other software you can think of) just fine.

Myself, I've been running insider builds since basically the Windows 10 launch and so far I can say that I've encountered issues rarely enough that I could count them with the fingers of one hand.

On top of that, Windows isn't Mac, where there are just a handful of different hardware configurations. There are literally millions of different configurations. And then you have to start considering whether the driver for each hardware piece is written correctly or if it's fully compatible with whatever you're running, plus whatever else may be running in kernel-mode not fucking something up, and user-installed crap.

EDIT: You could remove a lot of legacy code and clean up a bit, I suppose, but we should start thinking of getting rid of all the purely 32-bit stuff for that matter. And discarding nearly half the devices around the world that require some sort of legacy support.
And yet they insist of forcing updates on most, How about windows 10 gamer edition or would that be in conflict of there Xbox HAHAHA. Be about time they did and strip this mofo down already.

Just more MS BS.
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