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. > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
