[Bug 73023] Round orange emblems have lack usability

[Maniac]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: human-icon-theme

Some background. I use Gnome in its 'spatial' mode and rely heavily on
spatial characteristics: placement of objects, their color, form and
texture. Given this I use emblems a lot and before Edgy they played a
big and good role in easiness of access to screen objects.

Edgy brings new shiny emblems that have a unified look. While beautiful,
it reduces usability of emblems very much because it makes all emblems
to be:

- of one form
- of one color

I propose to bring back previous emblems (at least) or draw new ones. I
perfectly understand that drawing so many emblems in different colors
and forms is much harder than current set with schematic pictures. This
is why I think that returning old icons is a good option.

I've found that the nature of this issue is hard to understand for the
majority of users that use Nautilus as a file browser with 'list view'
and use emblems as an occasional eye-candy. But for us, crazy spatial
addicts, this is really a major thing. I'll attach two screenshot of my
home folder, one with edgy's emblems that makes everything
indistinguishably orange and one with old emblems that help you to pick
a needed icon in no time.

** Affects: human-icon-theme (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Round orange emblems have lack usability
https://launchpad.net/bugs/73023