[Tango-artists] Help for younger/international users?

[Jakub Steiner]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 11:13 +1300, John C Barstow wrote:
> > Jakub Steiner wrote:
> > we've had numerous discussions about this and we're more than inclined
> > to drop the floppy. What we need is a usable replacement for the floppy
> > metaphore. We had a number of suggestions and the best so far were a
> > folder with an arrow pointing towards it (which wouldn't be easily
> > distinguishable if we kept the current document-open folder icon) and
> > the drive icon instead of the folder. This remains an open issue.
> 
> How about a document going into a folder? I'm thinking:
> 
> document (half-size, top-left, foreground), folder (half-size, 
> bottom-right, background), curved arrow pointing from document to 
> folder.

Well that would *just* like the document-open icon we have. I've
commited the drive+arrow in the meantime and we'll see how that works.

cheers

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Jakub Steiner <jimmac at novell.com>
Novell, Inc.