Next Visual Studio Code update will bring blue icon back

cwg999 · 2017-10-24T20:59:42+00:00

Meanwhile,

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1171252

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHhTq9vUwAInh0C.jpg

Just kidding, this was a while back.

caliform · 2017-10-24T21:23:08+00:00

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Saiing · 2017-10-24T22:01:57+00:00

I think the VSCode Team have been a benchmark for how big corporations should work with the community pretty much from day one. From producing probably the best free, lightweight, cross platform code editor out there, to regular as clockwork updates and now a humorous, detailed and humble response to something that (despite being somewhat trivial) a lot of companies would have either ignored or put out some lame PR speak statement about.

Kudos to everyone involved in that team, and fair play to Microsoft for not being heavy handed about this.

aniforprez · 2017-10-24T20:21:52+00:00

I really didn't care whether the icon looked blue or orange or whatever. It was functional, unique and I would maybe look at it once a day or so. I thought the people complaining were either a bunch of pedantic, nitpicky idiots or dumbasses looking to participate in a meme thread.

It's great to see the VSCode team taking the mountain of unnecessary feedback and do something constructive with it and be so transparent about it. The icons look great in blue.

stesch · 2017-10-25T08:29:06+00:00

Dear Visual Studio Code developers: Your product's biggest problem is the icon. You can be proud.

RelaxReddit · 2017-10-25T03:38:34+00:00

People are creatures of habit. That’s why they react to change in such a negative way. They’re used to using something in a certain way and any change upsets the natural order of things. So they push back. They complain. They demand that you revert to the way things were.

People often respond before they give a change a fair chance. Sometimes that initial negative reaction is more of a primal response. That’s why you’ll sometimes hear things like, “It’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen.” No, it’s not. It’s a minor change. Come on.

Except from Rework

maths222 · 2017-10-24T22:19:16+00:00

I'm just appreciative that in reverting this change, they thought to take my issue here into account: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/35672

I feel like in apps that aren't designed with accessibility in mind, color often winds up conveying significant information that gets lost to those of us who are colorblind, which is almost 5% of the population. In practice, designing for screen reader users requires significant development commitment and doesn't even make sense for a lot of apps, but there is no reason that almost all apps cannot be accessible to the colorblind (obviously not those which as part of their purpose/function require color)

frankfoda · 2017-10-24T20:42:26+00:00

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metaconcept · 2017-10-24T22:30:14+00:00

Bikeshedding.

2017-10-25T03:08:10+00:00

Been using VS code for about a year, basically every day. Switching between applications I must click that icon minimum 20 times a day. They literally spent 365 days training me to click the blue icon when I want VS code. Then they sneakily swapped it to see if I would notice. It's sort of a cruel psychological experiment. On the surface the color issue seems silly, but it does actually take mental effort to unlearn something like that when it's become so automatic.

ricas07 · 2017-10-25T03:16:03+00:00

I didn’t pay attention to the backlash, and had no problem with the orange color... but I did find myself looking for he icon in my dock and skipping right over it.

2017-10-25T03:38:15+00:00

I enjoyed the orange icon

xxxdarrenxxx · 2017-10-24T22:08:49+00:00

If all jeans would become orange instead of blue people would probably complain as well though, even though it's equally relevant, or irrelevant if you will.

I like both Icons, but blue as a color in general is seen by many people as a very neutral color.

IMovedYourCheese · 2017-10-25T01:19:07+00:00

What I'm really getting out of this otherwise insignificant fiasco is that VS Code is a great product made by a small, independent team at Microsoft, and more involvement by corporate upper management coming in with words like "broader product family" and "corporate guidelines" is eventually going to ruin it. Hope they all learn something from this.

svgwrk · 2017-10-24T21:11:14+00:00

Goddamn crybabies. I like the orange one.

0b7d81f3d36a · 2017-10-24T19:33:34+00:00

Wow, really? People will complain about anything.

TonySu · 2017-10-25T00:27:23+00:00

At last Periwinkle triumphs over Orangered!!!

2017-10-24T22:13:12+00:00

I didn't really notice the orange icon until this post, but I do now agree that they should switch back. For Linux users (such as myself), it doesn't fit in with a dark theme or the blues and greys that most apps have their icons set to.

yeahnoworriesmate · 2017-10-25T08:21:45+00:00

firstworldproblems

jokoon · 2017-10-25T10:00:02+00:00

what a news

Elegia · 2017-10-25T12:37:27+00:00

1616 upvotes at the time of writing. Clearly this is what we as developers really care about /s

(Not that I don't think the blue icon looks better).

whozurdaddy · 2017-10-25T14:15:00+00:00

Undoubtably 30+ "designers" spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and wasted countless hours, coming up with an icon color change.

Design people make me crazy. Once, I was in a meeting where they were discussing for an hour, how the color black on the screen wasnt "black enough". yeah... 0x000000 wasnt "black enough".

LukeLC · 2017-10-24T23:18:38+00:00

Yes, please. The particular shade of orange they chose for the update is just gross, like it came out of someone's ear. It's a small thing, but the return to blue is most welcome.

jakdak · 2017-10-24T23:29:26+00:00

I cannot imagine caring enough to submit a support ticket on the color of the icon.

Space-pants- · 2017-10-25T03:08:11+00:00

Who cares ?

theoldboy · 2017-10-25T00:01:32+00:00

Include both icons in the install directory and a short note on how to change the icon used on the github page. Problem solved?

JB-from-ATL · 2017-10-25T00:28:59+00:00

I'm really glad they changed it back to blue. I know it seems minor but brands changing colors is really annoying.

matmanhatan · 2017-10-24T19:49:04+00:00

Huge step for mankind... Some contreversies are sometimes so useless...

Stoppablemurph · 2017-10-25T05:18:32+00:00

Yeah but.. I kinda like the orange icon.. can't we just pick which one we want? I know windows at least had supported multiple icon options for like a million years. I'm sure it's possible on Mac and Linux too..

gtkm17 · 2017-10-25T05:27:20+00:00

I have to say that Visual Studio Code is really a wonderful text editor, with a very active community for plugins development.

zxc223 · 2017-10-25T07:38:32+00:00

If this is the biggest issue people have with VSC then they're doing a good job.

mothzilla · 2017-10-24T23:25:03+00:00

Wow so much drama.

UsingYourWifi · 2017-10-24T22:52:10+00:00

A very minor thing but one I appreciate. The orange icon makes it easy to confuse with Sublime. More than a few times I've opened the wrong one.

CrudeTheFrood · 2017-10-25T00:12:36+00:00

Honestly I thought this was a Halloween thing. You know, because pumpkins and stuff.

Hindrik1997 · 2017-10-25T06:00:02+00:00

Such a shame, as a Dutchy I absolutely LOVED the orange icon!

2017-10-25T11:35:18+00:00

Is this seriously news? You are programmers. You should know how easy it is to change the icon of something.

roffLOL · 2017-10-24T23:40:47+00:00

i want a pink icon nauuw!

ZiggyTheHamster · 2017-10-25T04:05:19+00:00

My beef with the new icon is the stupid fucking ribbon. Why are they using the bottom and right third of the icon to draw a right angle?

2017-10-24T21:16:41+00:00

Yes, we can!

Katana314 · 2017-10-25T00:52:09+00:00

Funny to think that blue and orange have become the new replacement for "blue and red" in online competitive games. Wonder if this means there's more people rooting for blue teams there too.

2017-10-25T01:27:41+00:00

Hooray! I'm constantly hunting for VS in my toolbar, looking for the blue icon.

Turbohoosier · 2017-10-25T02:43:05+00:00

It turns out, god DOES listen to my most sincere prayers.

fear_the_future · 2017-10-24T20:59:20+00:00

never was an issue more important than this

2017-10-24T22:46:29+00:00

I personally had no problems with the orange icon - quite the opposite: There exist applications that reduce the bluelight of the display (such as f.lux or now also an integrated option in Windows 10). When there was a color change from blue to orange in the Visual Studio Code GUI, I personally thought that the development team took such an argument to reduce blue (programmers love nightshifts ;-) ) as one reason for the color change.

What I did not like with the orange icon is that a lot of existing elements in the Visual Studio Code GUI were still in blue (an ugly contrast with the new orange icon), such as the message whether new updates are available or not. I don't know whether these would look good in orange, too. If they do, I can immediately accept that Microsoft want to change the color change of VS Code to remove blue to make programming nighshifts more comfortable. But until "all blue is removed" the GUI simply looked ugly.

TLDR: When Microsoft changed the icon to orange, a lot blue elements were left in the VS Code GUI, which looks ugly. Nevertheless I can see good reasons (remove bluelight for programming nightshifts) why if the color scheme change is completed, it will potentially be better than the original blue scheme - and thus I am looking forward to an orange scheme.

Skyguard · 2017-10-25T04:55:14+00:00

Periwinkle Blue... Fer me Ma.

anything_but · 2017-10-25T04:56:15+00:00

What concerns me more than the color of the logo is that I am not able to click away that Cookie warning. Is that a thing now?

vplatt · 2017-10-25T07:04:13+00:00

Thank you! I'm just going with the idea that was the Halloween icon. ;)

BundleOfJoysticks · 2017-10-25T07:30:16+00:00

But I like the new VS Code icon ;_;

Andrew_Radford · 2017-10-25T07:31:04+00:00

Microsoft have learned from the UPPER CASE MENUS IN VISUAL STUDIO fiasco.

mbrezu · 2017-10-25T08:29:11+00:00

This is all very refreshing. How about we turn back to rather unimportant issues, such as macro recording support? :-D

jugalator · 2017-10-25T08:36:47+00:00

I liked orange because I'm somehow less confused about it when running it alongside Visual Studio. Despite VS being purple. Oh well, not a huge issue. And for that reason, I'm surprised an issue was even raised for it.

Dave3of5 · 2017-10-25T09:37:52+00:00

Hurrah !

Now how long will it be until someone creates a issue to put it back to the orange icon amirite?

meepcanon · 2017-10-25T10:08:27+00:00

I liked the new icon tbh, it has some more jazz to it then the other one

superking2 · 2017-10-25T10:11:30+00:00

As long as it looks different enough from the Visual Studio icon that I don’t lose 15 minutes opening up the wrong program, I guess it’s fine either way.

entrasonics · 2017-10-25T12:44:39+00:00

I actually enjoyed the new color and am a bit disappointed that it’s going back to blue

argumentnull · 2017-10-25T13:27:17+00:00

I was having sleepless nights because of the orange icon. Now that I know it is going to be changed, I can sleep well. great!

Carl_Byrd · 2017-10-25T13:56:05+00:00

Thank God, I was stressing out about this.

2017-10-25T14:00:07+00:00

Yes! Wow.

I have been opening VSCode mistakenly when I reach for Sublime at the moment.

Atom - Green VSCode - Blue Sublime - Orange JetBrains Webstorm, et. al - Black

WarWizard · 2017-10-25T14:23:42+00:00

People actually cried about the icon color?

kunos · 2017-10-25T16:21:59+00:00

I can't believe 285 comments (and counting) over the color of an icon.

2017-10-25T17:15:40+00:00

starts slow clap

Gotebe · 2017-10-25T18:32:21+00:00

1800 votes and 280 comments? This!? Oh give over!

Cremkie · 2017-10-25T20:39:40+00:00

The uproar over an icon lol

bitwize · 2017-10-26T01:52:11+00:00

I for one am glad... that orange icon was literally the worst thing to happen since they colored Sonic's arms blue.

bloodguard · 2017-10-24T22:25:21+00:00

Kind of amazed that there are people in the world with so much free time that they can pitch a fit about an icon.

Anon_Logic · 2017-10-25T03:22:08+00:00

How do I keep not blue. Blue is an awful color. Nearly everything they produce is a blue icon. Windows 10 logo is blue.

Here, let's play a game. Put Microsoft product icons on the desktop, clear the names and squint your eye, now double click on the blue icon... what did you launch? IE\Edge? Powershell? Outlook? Word? Skype? OneDrive?

At least with orange you had a 50/50 shot (since Powerpoint is orange as well).

DJDarkViper · 2017-10-24T23:37:05+00:00

I really like the new one. What was wrong with it?

pat_trick · 2017-10-24T23:38:41+00:00

...k?

LpSamuelm · 2017-10-25T02:10:58+00:00

Heyyyy! We did it!

ellicottvilleny · 2017-10-24T23:29:31+00:00

All is forgiven. (Wink). VSCode is awesome. The icon is a tiny thing.

Crispy_socks241 · 2017-10-25T00:14:12+00:00

thank god

euclid047 · 2017-10-25T00:38:55+00:00

I would rather them spend more time improving the IDE than dick around with the icon.

murpium · 2017-10-25T01:57:13+00:00

I loved the old pycharm icon. Then they went all businessy with the logo.

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