[Tango-artists] Preposition of a Sync icon, GNOME Icon Theme

[Andreas Nilsson]

Lapo Calamandrei wrote:
> That's exactly the problem for sync icons, there isn't anything
> obvious for them. Anyway I'm not that sure that a pair of arrows is
> the way to go. Bouncing back to jimmac :-)
>   
Ran into this again because of my work on the Thunderbird activity 
manager [1], [2].
I'm leaning more and more towards that the most recognized metaphor for 
sync is a round plate with arrows pointing to each others ends. This is 
what both Vista [3] and OS X [4] use and I'm pretty sure it's used quite 
a lot on a bunch of mobile platforms as well.
It might suck, but then again, we don't have anything better, and it 
would be a pity to wait two more years for a better metaphor to come around.
This is pretty much my approach to the presence icons in g-i-t as well.

1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476695
2. https://bug476695.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=373837
3. http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/images/Vista/vista_sync_center.jpg
4. http://homepage.mac.com/simx/.Pictures/dot-mac-sync-details.png

- Andreas