Re: [Usability] Save Icon

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Manu Cornet wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:38:27 +0100
> From: Manu Cornet <lmanul ubuntu com>
> To: usability gnome org, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Save Icon
>
>
> Hi !
>
> > That's true.
> > But they don't think of saving as 'writing' either.
> > The writing part is what they've done with their
> > keyboard. An icon of a pen writing could be understood
> > to mean 'edit'.
> > When they save a document, they're storing /
> > preserving  their work. Those are the things we need
> > to convey, which is hard as they're fairly abstract.
>
> I agree that the pen-and-paper icon wouldn't fit...
>
> Another idea : what about a safe (the strong kind, where people keep
> very precious stuff, with a code), or something similar ?

That kind of iconography tends to be associate with encrypted documents.

I would have associated the life saver with saving but that is already
taken for help, I preferred the old question mark '?' in a speech
bubble.

- Alan