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mono icons are only good for eink. I really liked changing to colour in 1991.
By all means have them as an option.
The stupidest and most poor ergonomic fashion ever was to change to not just mono, but totally flat GUI (buttons, scroll, titles and Icons) and then simplify to the point where you have to guess. Or even hide scroll till you mouse over, though you can turn off that stupidity in Windows 10. Windows 10 is the worst Windows GUI since the excess of Vista or flat Windows 3.0 on Hercules. Is that text, link or button? Where do I click. Idiotic.
I think overly skeuomorphic, animated, translucent etc is also mad (the Vista and some previous Apple), but dumbing down to the level scene on current Android and Win 10 is madness. I'd rather learn Chinese and have those ideograms /logograms/symbols as a GUI, at least you'd know what the things mean.
Sorry about the rant. However designing everything like a whitespace enhanced corporate mono laser printout is the most backward step in GUIs since they were invented in 1976. (Apple, Digital Research, Microsoft and others copied Xerox).
Even eink GUIs are now too flat and simplified.
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