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A picture is worth a 1000 words; LC 4.5 on the left, LC 6.0.2 on the right:

I know which I prefer.

For anyone having the feeling this was a Linux-only problem here is a picture from Macintosh:

Richmond...

I think you're 'whistling Dixie'... I like the change...and it shows the difference between the 5 & 6 versions...

And the same again for Windows 7:

Well I could be "whistling Dixie" even if only for the reason than Abraham Lincoln reneged on States' Rights,
and however distasteful slavery is, the Confederacy, in their desire to separate from the United States were
sticking to the Declaration of Independence; while Lincoln was trampling all over it.

HOWEVER . . .

As Runtime Revolution claim that with the OSS version they are 'open' it behooves them to listen to this sort of complaint.

AND . . .

From a cognitive point of view, coloured icons are more easily distinguished.

Of course, the best situation, would be that there would be a choice in the IDE preferences:

You get your Abraham Lincoln and I get my Jefferson Davis!!!

Further to the Application Browser's monochromicity, there is a problem with the Preferences palettes (on Linux at least)
where text that is selected is always selected in BLACK, while earlier versions of Livecode picked up the system's
settings for selecting text: here we are again: LC 4.5 on the left, LC 6.0.2 on the right:

And so it goes on:

Selections in both the properties palette and in card fields are normal on my Mac. (This time I checked twice.) What is the hilitecolor of your stack set to? How about "the hilitecolor of stack home"? Maybe the Linux home stack shipped with a black hilite color?

put the hilitecolor of stack home

put the hilitecolor of stack "home"

get a null result

setting the hilitecolor of a stack is easy enough

and

set the hilitecolor of stack "home" to "blue"
results in the pref palette selection going purple

the hilitecolor reverts on quit and restart to black.

Hey, here's a bit of fun:

set the hiliteColor of stack "Home" to "red"

results in the photographic opposite of RED; a sort of olive-green.

Nope. The highlighting colors show up properly on linux here. Both LC 6.0.1 and 6.0.2-rc1.

Here you are; the hack stack to change your App-Browser icons from monochrome gloom
to nauseating colour (and back again when you've had enough.

That's very nice, but it's a bit disconcerting if you have the Application Browser open and all the App Browser icons disappear.
Reloading the App Browser shows color icons properly.
And IMO it makes a *big* difference.
Thanks for this.

So I typed this into my Message Box:

set the hiliteColor of stack Home" to 117,63,61
save stack "Home"

then Quit Livecode and Restarted it,

at which point selected items appeared in something that could perhaps be described as "upset stomach brown"

which is very odd indeed when 117,63,61 is a fairly groovy shade of green.