On 28/12/11 21:30, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Danishka Navin <danis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As you all know the floppy disc is some thing out dated in the modern >> computer world. >> >> 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' > > But hey, if you have a better icon, that will be as readily understood > by users as meaning 'save'... sure, why not :-) > I did a quick Google picture search with 'save icon', and I ended-up > with 1001-variations on the floppy theme :-) > > Norbert >
Hehe, well, thinking of it, digital cameras mimic the mechanical sounds. Still, anyone with an idea and access to a reference group should be able to check whether this is feasible or not. – Olav -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
