[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23333: New icons

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#23333: New icons
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 Reporter:  empireoflight   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Administration  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ui-focus        |
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Comment (by matt):

 Scott, also the legacy look could be made into a plugin or theme so people
 who prefer it can continue with it. Any change we make to the admin, where
 people spend countless hours every day, will naturally have resistance. We
 saw it in 2.7 and 2.5 with the big changes, but also trivial ones like
 when we introduced blue to the admin in the early days. To me the
 important thing is are we building a visual vocabulary we can build on for
 the next 3-5 years. I don't really care about whether "flat" is a trend or
 not, it's more about an elegant reduction of our visual elements to
 streamline superfluous elements, lines and iconography that work equally
 well at small and large physical sizes that the proliferation of non-PC
 devices is going to bring to our user base. I'm open to other ideas or
 approaches about a visual language that solves those same problems, but
 our current status quo does not.

 JJJ, by your argument we could never change anything aesthetically with
 WordPress. It's true that things built for old platforms will look old,
 but for anything more complex than standard UI elements we can control
 with CSS we're going to have this "problem" and there really isn't any way
 around it besides locking in all our visual elements to the look we chose
 5 years ago.

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