[ubuntu-art] Save icon

[Andreas Nilsson]

Alper Beser wrote:
> Hey,
> that would cause too much irritation for too less - imo. Many people 
> might think of a "download" folder or something like that, when they 
> see the icons you linked to.
>
> It's definitley not necessary.
Hi Alper!
Actually, downloading is the same as saving if you think about it, just 
from a remote location.
The reason we went for a hard drive in tango-icon-theme and 
gnome-icon-theme is because we thought it's such a seldom used medium 
these days (14 year old kids don't know what it is :) ). It made more 
sense ten years ago when you actually used to save your data on floppies 
I guess.
I agree that it's a tricky situation though (since people are used to 
see the floppy symbol etc.) and to some extent the instant-save model 
used by apps like tomboy and others could make more sense.
- Andreas
>
> regards
>
> 2007/11/26, Denis Washington <dwashington at gmx.net 
> <mailto:dwashington at gmx.net>>:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I think the Human icon theme's usage of a floppy disk as metaphor for
>     saving is becoming very outdated. Instead, I think we should move to a
>     hard disk metaphor like done in the Tango and GNOME icon themes. I
>     filed
>     a bug about this to Launchpad:
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/human-icon-theme/+bug/136584
>
>     Regards,
>     Denis
>
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