AFAIK those icons come from the Tango Project, so maybe your critique > should go to those people to be effective... :-)
If Tango icons suck, maybe we should dump them of fork them. Some of them are really nice, but the lack of detail and contrast in some makes them unrecognizable. And the choice of metaphor is in some instances plain wrong. (And the "spam" icon depicts a crumpled piece of paper, but I agree that
> I had to take a second, closer look before seeing that, and then think > for some time about what it could mean, so it's not really a good icon.)
I know It tries to look like a crumpled piece of paper, but it really does look a lot more like a meteorite, doesn't it? And even if it *were* a good image of a crumpled piece of paper, why should delete spam by crumpling but delete ham by shredding -- given that you recognize the shredder for what it is, which is not really that immediate, and don't mind the fact that "shredded" mail waits intact in the trashcan for you to unshred. The icons suck, and the metaphors suck. They have to be replaced
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