[Tango-artists] Search/Find and Zoom Metaphors

[Steven Garrity]

There was some discussion in #tango today about icon metaphors for 
Search (or "find", but I'll just say "search" for now) and Zoom.

So far, we've been using a magnifying glass as the general "search" 
visual metaphor. We have not had a good "zoom" metaphor yet.

I would like to suggest that the magnifying glass is a better metaphor 
for zooming, than it is for search.

For search, we could us binoculars.

A magnifying glass does zoom - you use it to make something bigger, more 
detailed. Binoculars are used to scan a scene for something - more like 
search.

Make any sense, or am I stretching these metaphors too far?

On downside is that the magnifying glass is often associated with search 
(Mac OS X) and some people might have that association already.

Cheers,
Steven Garrity