Re: The need for edit-delete

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Luca Ferretti wrote:

> There is a bug against Nautilus [1] asking for a better metaphor for
> "Move to Trash" and "Delete" action. The patch to fix nautilus is
> trivial, use gnome-fs-trash icon for the first and GTK_STOCK_DELETE for
> the second, but unfortunately both icons are using a garbage metaphor.
>
> Now that the UI freeze is approaching, do you think we could provide a
> new icon in g-i-t for 'edit-delete' named icon, so I can "lobby"
> nautilus maintainer to apply the patch?
>
> I quickly draw the attached one. Yes, it's just like the close tab icon
> in FireFox, but
>      * close icon in GNOME is historically a black cross
>      * read means warning[2]
>      * the edit-delete icon in Tango is not so good [3]
>
> PS something like a shredded document?
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325945
> [2] ok, not everywhere... but...
> [3] see
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2006-January/msg00069.html
>  
What about not using a icon in that button at all?
The image don't really add anything meaningful to the button anyway, the 
text already says it all.
- Andreas