On 12/29/2011 5:23 AM, Tony Pursell wrote: > On 29 December 2011 00:29, NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> On 12/28/2011 03:59 PM, NoOp wrote: >>> On 12/28/2011 02:46 PM, Tony Pursell wrote: >>> ... >>>> >>>> Until I checked it out just now, I didn't realise that the Save icon >> used >>>> in the Ubuntu version of LO is actually a broad green downward arrow on >> top >>>> of a representation of a Hard drive. Now, I have had no problems saving >>>> documents, so I imagine that things like the position of the icon (next >> to >>>> the Open File icon) and the tool tip are all part of identifying the >> Save >>>> icon. When I looked at the floppy disk icon on my wife's Win 7 >> version, I >>>> realise how old fashioned it looks. >>>> >>>> Tony >>>> >>> >>> That is because you have your icon style set to 'Human'. Ubuntu includes >>> openoffice.org-style-human and libreoffice-style-human in their >>> repositories. If LO provided the same & set the default to 'Human' the >>> save icon would be the same (disk drive with a down arrow). >>> >>> >> >> Correction: libreoffice-style-humanity >> See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/757304 >> > > Thanks for the explanation of why Ubuntu is different. > > The point I am making is that an old fashioned floppy disk is not the only > icon > used for Save and the world will not come to an end if some other > appropriate, > and more modern, icon is used in its place. Having said that, a hard drive > may > be old fashioned in a few years time when SSDs become the norm. > > Tony >
I haven't heard of Delete/Eraser that works as well on SSDs as traditional hard drives. That said USB will be the most common storage media soon enough. Who saves to CDs at work? I don't think the icon is a big deal, the whole interface is dated, I pitched a Firefox addon-like interface a while back, but I'm still ahead of my time on that. Rather than reinventing the wheel, update the saveicon with a stock USB icon: a vertical USB icon, it looks like a human carrying stuff and you have the integrated download arrow, and it is a recognized symbol on cameras, phones, TVs, etc. http://imagebin.org/190980 -- GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom). Extensible, customizable text editor---GNU Emacs; Where's yours? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org 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
