Re: [Gimp-gui] Blend tool icons & Color eraser icon

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 18:22 +0100, staedtler-przyborski wrote:
> Am 15.02.2016 um 20:44 schrieb Aurore D. :
> > Hello,
> > I'd like to suggest the change of the blend tool icon, back to the
> > "original" icon: a simple square with a gradient in it.
> > The kitchen blender is not a very good visual metaphor
>
>
> Just a side note, interestingly all women in my work and in my 
> surrounding who have seen this icon loved it immediately, for them
> it 
> was also no problem to understand what it stands for.

Yes, it's no problem, in *english*. That icon metaphor is bound
to the word "blend" and therefore completely wrong.

In german, a blender is a "Mixer", and the blend tool "Farbverlauf",
that's 100% unrelated. I guess it's the same in most other languages.

Please get rid of that blender.

Regards,
--Mitch