Comment 42 for bug 430277

I certainly understand the offered rationale for the decision to make the system icons greyscale, I just think the decision is painfully bad.

In addition to just being ugly, the loss of color significantly interferes with the usability of the desktop for me on a daily basis because it takes me longer to figure out what icon is which when I want to change a system setting. I do things like mute the audio, change to a different wireless network, and check my battery level far more often than I encounter errors or warnings in the system icon area. The loss of color makes all of those slower. If a warning or error is severe enough that a split-second faster response time is needed, a notification window should pop up rather than depending on a system icon to indicate such a critical error.

That said, I appreciate that Canonical is helping out the community by employing the blind in their design team. I just think it might be more useful to have them work on other aspects of the accessibility project than picking colors for the desktop.