interesting... but these suggestions are surely for OS oriented apps that integrate into windows...

if you wanted to follow a standard in a graphic app it would be adobe [apple not MS] would it not?

and when the coloured icons for tools that are still present in ver 19 first appeared in xara they were decried as 'toytown'

never going to please everyone....

and I am still not into self harm, though I will admit to a fondness of hyperbole