BrickLink colour changes

[Sylvain Sauvage]

Okay, so I looked into the new ldconfig.ldr in 2023-2:

Great 

• 86 (Old)Medium_Brown renamed to Light_Brown
  
• 371 Medium_Tan added
  
• 83 Metallic_Black renamed to Pearl_Black
  
• 510 Fabuland_Pastel_Green renamed to Fabuland_Lime
  

What 

• 178 Flat_Dark_Gold renamed to Pearl_Yellow
  
• 179 Flat_Silver renamed to Pearl_Silver
  
• 176 named Pearl_Red
  
• 147 named Pearl_Dark_Gold
  

What happened to the Bionicle_* names to match the BrickLink names?  Why revert to Peeron’s names?


Also, now that BrickLink has Bionicle Silver to match LEGO 179 Silver Flip/Flop, LDraw doesn’t have a separate silver colour to match BL 95 Flat Silver (LEGO 315 Silver Metallic only).
Studio uses LD 179 for BL 95 Flat Silver.
Should Studio switch to Pearl Light Grey instead?    It seems wrong to me.  Well, it was already wrong before….
(Plus, it’s not for the immediate future but BL plans to split BL 66 Pearl Light Gray to separate LEGO 131 Silver from LEGO 296 Cool Silver.)


Finally, if you don’t know yet, there’s a new LEGO Trans-Black colour arriving, so BL renamed
BL 13 Trans-Black to “Trans-Brown (Old Trans-Black)”
and created
BL 251 “Trans-Black (2023)”
(parentheses included and remaining for at least 6 months).