Colored icons in finder

using osx 10.6.8 on all my machines, but recently lent a MacPro for a project that has Lion.
using that MacPro it's interesting to test Lion a bit, but one thing I am really wondering about:
finder on osx 10.6.8 shows the icons of "home", "movies", "programs" or external drives in colors. which made it easy to distinguish them.
that has changed in lion: all icons are slightly modified and GREY.
what sense does that make? its a step back in usability.
or is there a way to get colors back on finder icons on lion?
cheers
chris

just found a solution:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/25/get-color-sidebar-icons-back-in-mac-os-x-10-7-lio n-finder-windows/
cheers
chris

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just found a solution:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/25/get-color-sidebar-icons-back-in-mac-os-x-10-7-lio n-finder-windows/
cheers
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