2011/12/30 NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net> > On 12/30/2011 08:12 AM, M Robinson wrote: > ... > > > > I haven't heard of Delete/Eraser that works as well on SSDs as > > traditional hard drives. That said USB will be the most common storage > > media soon enough. Who saves to CDs at work? > > > > I don't think the icon is a big deal, the whole interface is dated, I > > pitched a Firefox addon-like interface a while back, but I'm still ahead > > of my time on that. > > > > Rather than reinventing the wheel, update the saveicon with a stock USB > > icon: a vertical USB icon, it looks like a human carrying stuff and you > > have the integrated download arrow, and it is a recognized symbol on > > cameras, phones, TVs, etc. > > > > http://imagebin.org/190980 > > > > Rather than reinvent the wheel: > > Stock icons: > GNOME & Humanity: > < > http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-icon-theme/trunk/scalable/actions/document-save.svg > > > [my system Humanity: > /usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/16/document-save.svg > matches the one from freedesktop.org] > > Tango: > < > http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/tango/tango-icon-theme/32x32/actions/document-save.png?view=co > > > [which is not used by LO when the Tango theme is selected - LO still > uses a floppy with the Tango theme. My system Tango: > /usr/share/icons/Tango/22x22/actions/document-save.png > matches the one from freedesktop.org] > > freedesktop.org Icon Theme Specification: > < > http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html > > > "document-save The icon for the save action. Should be an arrow pointing > down and toward a hard disk." > > I suspect that LO are still using these icons for Tango: > <http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=Tango-OOo> > [Tango OpenOffice.org 2.0 -Note this artwork is not public domain.] > However, that standard Tango icons *are* public domain: > http://tango.freedesktop.org/ > <quote> > Terms Of Use > > The Tango base icon theme is released to the Public Domain. The palette > is in public domain. Developers, feel free to ship it along with your > application. The icon naming utilities are licensed under the GPL. > > Though the tango-icon-theme package is released to the Public Domain, we > ask that you still please attribute the Tango Desktop Project, for all > the hard work we've done. Thanks. > </quote> >
Personally, I like the arrow pointing downward towards a harddisk (would look much the same if it were interpreted as an SSD), but please give us some advance notice, so that I can prepare myself for the task of explaining to my retirees «what they did with the TV on my screen».... :-) Henri -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
