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I like the new icons very much, glad to see that they made it into 2.50. :)

everythings ´cool, since u still can customize the iconset in upcomming versions.
normaly i hate changed icons.. because i got to start "learning" again, it will slow you down for a while, but maybe in this case, there was a lot of inconsistency blender default iconset and the new one will speed up your workflow after while. i´ll give a try!

Some things are still not perfect (a lot of not so perfect solutions were mentioned) and i think its the right direction and the right moment for a change. ->2.5
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who cares about the "amiga" icon, see -its just a nice reminder for good old days.. lol

I work with Blender the same way; I don't have time to check out shapes, but a colour I can see in a split-second. It's why I tend to zip through the UI, but come to a halt whenever I've got to assign a Window Type or create a Modifier; the Window Types have mostly gray and black icons, the latter has none at all.

I'd rather see meaningless, but easily recognisable icons than ones that show excellently what they do, but pretty much look alike; Blender's philosophy has always been orientated towards speeding up for the pros rather than the n00bs and I know that, when I started, I always hovered over the tooltips to see anyway. It's even sillier with text next to it, where an icon's representation of the function doesn't actually matter at all. I'd just have made them red, green, yellow and blue shapes. Ugly? Hell yeah. Unintuitive? Not so much, there's text anyway. Easy to recognise? You bet. That last one is my priority anyway. I think it'd be speedier to find once you know that a red ball represents the Node Editor and a blue cube the UV/Image Editor, for example.

So yeah. I think that with your philosophy, you did an excellent job; it's just that I think it's an inefficient design philosophy.

Bye and good work.

Functionality? We have the same menu structure, but with better looking icons. So what is the problem?

Professional workflow by icons that can be differenciated more easily? Umm, i think someone already said the ugly word that is the proper reply to this: Hotkeys.

Further complaints? Just take a year or two and work out a better, maybe even a perfect set of icons that fulfills all your (and the rest of the world's) wishes.

Andrzej actually his time and has put a lot of work (i know this kind of work, believe me) into this and came out with a gorgeous final result. We should simply thank him for this.

Thanks you Andrzej, you're one of the real blender heads… :)