Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Can we replace "Floppy Disk"
I have been wondering that as well. I think that it is funny that we still use the floppy disc as the save button. I think that it should be changed as well, but the icon is used in every program ever. so even though people may not know what it is they know that the button saves there work. what would we use as a new icon? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Can we replace "Floppy Disk"
Erich Christian wrote (30-12-11 11:45) I'd go for a change, neither elderly people nor 'youngsters' associate anything useful with the symbol. Having asked my teenagers (13, 16, 19) who are familiar with computers ever since, they cannot remember floppy although I've been using some until a couple of years ago and also their machines came with floppy slots for long... IMO most important question is what people look for if they want to store something. For me that would be a Ctrl-S-icon ;-) And I guess ... for most other it is the well known icon ?! -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-design] Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Can we replace "Floppy Disk"
Hi, Am 30.12.2011 04:53, schrieb Danishka Navin: > next generation won't find a floppy disk in real life. > we better use some thing else +1 I'd go for a change, neither elderly people nor 'youngsters' associate anything useful with the symbol. Having asked my teenagers (13, 16, 19) who are familiar with computers ever since, they cannot remember floppy although I've been using some until a couple of years ago and also their machines came with floppy slots for long... > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tony Pursell >> 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. The german localization of 'save' (which rather means rescue in german) is 'store' (speichern) so imo we might as well use a 'common' storage symbol e.g. http://www.crestock.com/image/4072237-3d-box-with-yellow-folders.aspx or http://www.discounto.de/Angebot/Aktenordner-DIN-A4-42358/ maybe plus down arrow (just for quick examples). CCing the Design-list for opinions on this topic. cheers Erich -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
