When I said "other", I was speaking about the google search. The google
search doesn't mean anything. In my case, the first result was an
interdiction sign, like those on the road. The second result was a green
arrow.

Right now, the GNOME icon theme, the Tango theme, the Ubuntu theme until
Jaunty were all using a trash to delete. Tango developer also warned a
lot about those "false metaphor". The fact that you associate the red
circle with delete is not related with the metaphor, it's only because
you are used to it. And this is something we want to avoid.

The reason why I'm reporting this bug is that, since I've installed
Karmic, I'm constantly trying to find a delete button. I always wonder
what the red circle will do and why it's dangerous. In my own
application (Getting Things GNOME!), I was not sure which plugin
installed this interdiction thing. I even nearly reported a bug against
Empathy because it was not possible to delete an account in the Karmic
version. It's by chatting with developer that I pointed the root of all
of my problems : this icon.

You say that there is no time to test before Karmic. I was using Jaunty
and I decided to upgrade to Karmic beta to test. I find immediatly a
severe usabilty regression and report it. It's not a feature request :
it's a regression.


I see that my message is a bit direct and without humor but don't take it 
personaly, it's not intended to sound aggressive or anything. I just want to be 
as clear as possible. Usability is my main concern, my professionnal domain and 
I feel really bad when I see an usability regression in the software I love ;-) 
(also noting that this new icon them is just superb and worth being more usable)

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Humanity delete icon use the wrong concept
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