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

Although not paying sufficient homage to the brilliant Umberto Eco, it would seem that having good 
tool tips would matter for both the icons (which are often quite tiny) and for accessibility 
reasons.  And the internationalization of the tool tips may be rather important.

It would also be good that the default arrangement of the icons not change, no matter what the 
symbols/images are.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pescetti@openoffice.org] 
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 12:21
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Can we replace "Floppy Disk"

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
> 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

Regards,
   Andrea.

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