2011/12/30 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@openoffice.org> > On 28/12/2011 Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Danishka Navin wrote: >> >>> Why we still continue the "Floppy Disk" as the icon for "Save" button in >>> LibreOffice? >>> >> >> When was the last time you saw a phone that look like >> http://iphonestudio.co.uk/**images/uber_iphone_phone_logo.**jpg<http://iphonestudio.co.uk/images/uber_iphone_phone_logo.jpg> >> Ironically that 70 years old design is still used on IPhone and others >> modern cell-phone to indicate: 'telephone' >> > > Indeed. An icon is just a convention to convey a meaning and it should not > necessarily be a representation of reality. One doesn't usually look for > words in a document using a binocular or a magnifying glass, but people can > easily associate these icons to "Find". > > For those who want to practice their Italian or stress-test machine > translation, here's a nice short and funny article from 1996 by the famous > writer Umberto Eco: "Icons everywhere? No thanks, I can read". > http://tecfa.unige.ch/staf/**staf9597/beltrame/STAF13/eco.**html<http://tecfa.unige.ch/staf/staf9597/beltrame/STAF13/eco.html> > > Regards, > Andrea.
As a counter to Professor Eco's brief - and as always in his case, witty critique of icons, may I suggest that interested users test his conclusions by launching Writer, clicking Tools and selecting Customise and then Toolbars, clicking the Toolbar button and finally selecting «Text only». * Pace* Professor Eco, but I suspect that all who do so will immediately reselect «Icons only».... Henri -- 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
