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White background behind file icons in a folder icon

Submitted by tino on November 8, 2008 to Aesthetics, Icons

There is an unnecessary white background behind document icons when displayed inside of a folder icon. I think it's a bad design decision.

Make use of the alpha channel and shadow of the file icons.

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Discussion (4 comments)

Jote wrote on November 8, 2008, 7:26pm

I actually think that the current design works better and has probably been employed to better handle "weird" (non-standard) icons.

JonathanJ wrote on November 9, 2008, 1:00am

Alphas are attached to the icons themselves, Vista's renderer doesn't just go adding alphas to large areas of negative space willy-nilly.

+1

Anders Lund wrote on January 15, 2009, 10:53pm

It's still the same in Windows 7 beta....
I'm not sure what I think about this.

xpclient wrote on August 27, 2010, 2:57pm

Folder thumbnails should be optionally returnable to XP-style (flat) instead of 3D. The 3D ones while flashier and nicer are less useful than the flat ones which made it very easy to identify the content.

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