The icon for the delete action seems to be a picture of a schredder, but a) It is not a very good picture, with too little contrast and detail to convey what it is, and much less what it means.
b) I'm sure that the image of a shredder is NOT AT ALL what comes to the mind of 99.99% of the world's population when it comes to disposing of things so c) the purpose of the icon is totally baffling. Maybe in the US the association seems clear, but even that I doubt. I assure you that, in Spain, people will always wonder what that strange icon is for. And I'm sure that for anyone that has not received an overdose of american movies where the baddies shred the docs while the CIA agents are in the elevator, the image will be obscure at best, even if it were clearly drawn. Why not a simple trashcan? Almost everybody must know how a trashcan looks like and what is its purpose. As for the use of the icon in Evolution, I'll post a separate mail. Here I'll just say that the relation between shredding and crumpling a piece of email and deleting mail or marking it as spam is far beyond tenuous. -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
