Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Can we replace "Floppy Disk"

next generation won't find a floppy disk in real life.

we better use some thing else

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tony Pursell
<ajp@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>wrote:

> On 29 December 2011 00:29, NoOp <glgxg@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
>
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