why is everything gray in lion. Not appeasing

Vassilios wrote:

I disaggre that GUI is "a youth-oriented, fashion-focused field" alone, and that "The fact that some older folks have trouble deciphering gray-on-gray is just an added bonus." because

There is always an efficient/optimized way to implement things and other ways. Gray looks could be implemented by Apple more efficiently. That's all. User interface must always be motivated by the ease of use and secondly by other parameters. Fushion is flexible.

Is that Fusion or Cushion, could be either?

Vassilios wrote:

There is always an efficient/optimized way to implement things and other ways. Gray looks could be implemented by Apple more efficiently.

Here's what one seed tester posted to T. Cook when Lion was under test:

Dear Mr Cook,

I am a Mac user since 1985. At one point I was involved with the localization of OS 6 and OS 7 into Irish. I have been on the Customer Seed for many years, mostly on foot of my long experience as one of the authors of the Unicode Standard.

In Mac OS Lion, Apple's Human Interface team decided that all of the icons in the Finder sidebar, iTunes, and Mail should be a uniform grey. I cannot tell you how frustrating this is. I am not colour-blind. Nor are my eyes as young as once they were.

While grayness in the iOS doesn't bother me because my iPhone and iPad are held close to my face, my workflow and productivity is disrupted by the drab grayness in the Finder sidebar. I have to squint and lean forward to read the text next to the icons, rather than just aiming for the green downloads folder, or the orange external drive, etc.

I give below one of the Bug Reports and Enhancement Requests I have made. Many of us on the Customer Seed have made similar reports and requests. I asked Engineering to "kick this one upstairs" and they did so... they kicked it up to Human Interface. But it is Human Interface's love of grey that is the problem. I asked Engineering to kick this upstairs to you. Maybe they will. But someone else on the seed asked me to write to you directly. So, I am doing that.

I and other members of the Customer Seed beseech you: Tell H.I. to give us what we want: an option to use our colour sight -- an option to choose colour icons or grey icons as suits the functionality "we need", not just the aesthetic of some folks in Apple's H.I.

With thanks and best regards,

I know, right! I hate it!