I agree that the floppy symbol is well-understood as the Save icon. - Dennis
SOME MUSINGS I use a text editor (jEdit) that has a different Save icon. It is a curved downward arrow to what looks like a brick but which I now realize is a rectangular disk drive. (I use the small icon set on my setup.) The peculiarity is that the Open symbol is a file folder with a document sticking out of it. If that had an up-arrow on the document, and the Save had a down-arrow on the document, the combination would make more sense. However, the use of the folder con is also tied to the fact that there is a dialog involved (e.g., the into-folder case might be confused with Save As ...). This appears to be an over-constrained problem. -----Original Message----- From: M Henri Day [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:56 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Can we replace "Floppy Disk" 2011/12/28 Robert Derman <[email protected]> > Olav Dahlum wrote: > >> On 28/12/11 20:05, Danishka Navin wrote: >> >> >>> As you all know the floppy disc is some thing out dated in the modern >>> computer world. >>> >>> >> >> I'm afraid it's not the case, a lot of people use them, and especially >> in governmental institutions. >> >> >> >>> Why we still continue the "Floppy Disk" as the icon for "Save" button in >>> LibreOffice? >>> >>> >> >> Anyway, this could be replaced by a more generic computer/down arrow >> button to reflect the different media better. >> >> > The trouble is, most people would not recognize this, and there is of > course the limitation that icons must be fairly simple in form. Also I am > not sure that an icon of an optical disk, which would be much more valid > today would be as easily recognized. Actually in nearly every case the > document is being saved on a hard drive, but that would be much more > difficult to represent as a simple icon. I remember MS tried this in > Win-95, and it ended up looking more like a drum and drumstick. As long as > we all recognize the floppy as a floppy, it really doesn't matter that much > that it is archaic. > What people recognise and what they recognise it as is a vexed issue ; my experience in teaching retirees to use computers here in Stockholm is that when I point to the floppy-disk icon and ask what it represents, the most frequent reply I receive is «an old-fashioned TV». But I agree, replacing this well-established icon with a new one would probably give rise to more confusion than enlightenment.... Henri -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
