Re: The need for edit-delete

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 27 Jan 2006, at 08:46, 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]

IIRC, GNOME 1.x used a red cross for "delete", and we changed it for  
2.0 because it was getting confused with the black cross for  
"close".  So I'm guessing we don't want to go back there.

> PS something like a shredded document?

Maybe, might be hard to draw a stylized version of something like  
that though.  Personally I somewhat agree with Andreas that we don't  
really need one; the original idea of menu icons (when Microsoft  
introduced them) was to have them only for things that did or could  
also appear as toolbar buttons in that application.  I've always kind  
of wished that GNOME did that :/

Cheeri,
Calum.

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