Workspace explorer icons background colours are too harsh

[abrudz]

I suggest instead: i.e colours 5, 8, 9, and 15 from:

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[DyalogRichard]

My 2c:

• The colour blindness argument is bogus: the colour carries no essential semantic meaning because the text duplicates it.

• The suggested colours look too soft. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess :-)

[abrudz]

You could also argue that the text carries no meaning because the colours indicate type. One could ask why we need colours/text at all. However, some people find it much easier to scan for a specific colour than a specific letter and vice versa.

However, even more so if the colours carry less meaning, they should stand out less rather than more in the overall picture.

Btw, the yellow colour indicates an OOP object independent of type (class, namespace, instance, interface).