Bug 62297 - UI Icon for "Save" is a miniature image of a 3 1/2" floppy diskette should be something better
Summary: UI Icon for "Save" is a miniature image of a 3 1/2" floppy diskette should be...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.0.1.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium trivial
Assignee: Not Assigned
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: 108884 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2013-03-13 13:39 UTC by Gregor
Modified: 2017-07-03 18:06 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Icon images for Save function. 256, 128, 64, 32, 24, 16 pixels in one image (38.91 KB, image/png)
2013-03-13 13:39 UTC, Gregor
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Description Gregor 2013-03-13 13:39:06 UTC
Created attachment 76471 [details]
Icon images for Save function. 256, 128, 64, 32, 24, 16 pixels in one image

This is not a bug report but a suggestion(I found nowhere else I could submit this so here it is)
Icon for "Save" is a miniature image of a 3 1/2" floppy diskette should be something better. Few modern computer users have seen a 3 1/2" diskette, no comuters are furnished with then any more. The Icon is not selfexplanetory for those who have not lived threough the dark ages of 1.44 Mb floppies.
I attach a .png with my humble attempt to make an icon for the Save function in pixel widths 256, 128, 64, 32, 24, 16. (they are not square)
Comment 1 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2013-03-13 13:55:58 UTC
Hi Gregor,

Please take a look at the answers to this question:
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/2077/why-is-there-a-weird-save-icon/

tl;dr -- We tried a new icon and (nearly) everyone was confused, so we switched back to the icon of the 3.5" floppy :-)
Comment 2 bfoman (inactive) 2013-03-13 15:57:04 UTC
Quick link for rationale - http://user-prompt.com/about-antiquated-metaphors-in-icons/

Please consider posting at libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org mailing list as it is the best place for such discussion.

As this was discussed and changed just recently, I will mark this bug as WONTFIX.
Do not hesitate to reopen in case of mistriage.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2017-07-03 18:06:57 UTC
*** Bug 108884 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***