On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 04:41:48PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:

> Most Westernised folks at least will be familiar with the "recycle"
> triangle.  It's a small jump to make a similar association here.

But we cannot have just a recycle triangle, users associate it with
"re-something". We are not "recycling", we're "cycling".

> If you prefer something more like:
> 
>       --->-\
>            |
>          <-/

And how are you going to fit that, plus something that clearly indicates
a  llist item, onto even a KDE-sized icon ? You just won't be able to do
it clearly.

> Here's an idea.  What about a springy arrow?  Most people would know a
> spring will stretch and return.  Perhaps this would be a better
> analogy?

I have other objections to the cycling behaviour as was, and I'm not
super-excited about going therough it again  - the archives at
marc.theaimsgroup.com are pretty navigable.

regards
john

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