[ubuntu-art] Please change icon for Evolution's delete, mark as spam, mark as ham.

[Quim Calpe]

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 17:39 +0200, Nacho de los Rios wrote:

> As I said in a previous mail, I oppose to the notion that the image of a
> shredder clearly conveys the meaning of erasing things, even if it were
> a good image of a shredder (the current one looks a lot more like an
> unfinished image of a typing machine). Most people in the world have
> never used a shredder in their whole life, nor will they ever do, nor do
> they really know what it looks like.
> 
> As for the use of a crumpled piece of paper as an icon for the action
> "mark as spam" I have to argue that
> 
> a) It is not a very good image of a crumpled piece of paper. It lacks
> contrast and detail, and I think it looks a lot more as an asteroid.
> 
> b) the connection of "mark as spam" and crumpling a piece of pacer is
> really tenuous, even more when the icon sits beside the also
> unidentifiably icon of a shredder trying to mean "delete". I'm sure that
> most people that identify the icon for a crumpled piece of paper and not
> an asteroid, having failed to identify the shredder with the action
> "delete" will think that it is the icon for getting rid of mail after
> reading. The concept of spam will surely not enter their (our) minds,
> and they will be happy to see mail disappear into the nothingness after
> clicking on the icon.
> 
> Then of course, they will be baffled by the concept of a "delete" icon
> with a red cross on top. What does it mean? Do not erase? No more
> meteorites? And why is it gray?
> 
> I cannot, for the life of me, think of an icon to convey the meaning of
> "SPAM", but, as it is a neologism with no previous meaning and
> representing a brand new concept in any language (the word "spam" is not
> one of the 70,000 entries in my Collins dictionary), I propose the
> letters 'S' 'P' 'A' 'M' on top of a trashcan, or all by themselves. As
> for ham, I propose the same letters, only scratched out with a line.



I like the solution Sylpheed-Claws proposes, an envelope with a red sad
smiley for SPAM and one with a green happy smiley for good ones.

 
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