Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Can we replace "Floppy Disk"

Why?

I love the floppy disk! It's nostalgic! So what!

Not that it is too important but I always thought that this is one of
the nicest icons of all...


Best Christopher






On 23.01.2012 11:11, Stefan Knorr (Astron) wrote:
> Hi Charles, Warren, all,
>
> Charles-H. Schulz said:
> > Just FYI, we now have people on the discuss list asking how the decision
> > was made, so can you confirm there was a new icon that was used in the
> > Tango category?
> Hm, oh. Forgot announcing this on the design list, too, so: yes, we
> have a new icon for the Tango theme, as anyone who has used 3.5 beta
> 3+ can confirm. The decision to go forward with the new icon kind of
> came about on the ux-advise list. (By the way, it might help if a few
> more design people were there to help out developers who are unsure
> about how to get the user experience for new features right.)
> See here:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-ux-advise/2012-January/000709.html
> .
> The new icon is thanks to two fantastic Gnome people, Lapo Calamandrei
> and Jakub Steiner, who were kind enough to relicense this icon for us.
>
>
> Warren Camilleri wrote:
> > if i may barge in and put my 2 cents, working in an environment surrounded by simple users the 
> > floppy icon is well known as the save button, but for me its iconic to say from where it all 
> > began to today evolution of memory, and to play even more safe the gnome one is even more 
> > fantastic but i would ad folder in the draw as if you are saving more records...
> That might work on a larger resolution, but for this level of detail
> the icon is probably too small. Although, if you want to have a go at
> adding that, the source SVG is here:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/icon-themes/tango/cmd/lc_save.svg
>
>
> > also the floppy is somewhat and international standard, its already hard to push for simple 
> > users to switch with their fears of understanding "change" but it is better to make even more 
> > "familiar" for them.
> Right, but the Save icon is so prominent in the interface that I
> believe people will learn it. If there's a massive backlash against
> the icon, we might need to consider how we can make it better in
> 3.6/later in the 3.5... cycle. For 3.5.0, I'd say we'd best just leave
> it in.
>
>
> Astron.

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