David JONES
I see that Inkscape has abandonded the traditional but hopelessly outdated metaphor of a Floppy Disk for saving, and has replaced it with the much more modern metaphor of a Filing Cabinet Drawer.
Dec 4 at 11:34amWeb
Show threadBarry RowlingsonDec 4
@drj Need to change it to an icon which is a big cloud face labelled AI being fed by one's data.
Show threadhot tran*sexual menaceDec 5

@drj we need to establish a universal interface language (we need to force CTRL-S on Mac harrr) so nobody needs to go looking for icons ever again.

No icons allowed only shortcuts.

Show threadPhilippa CowderoyDec 5
@drj tbf, most people know them as "folders" rather than "directories" these days...
Show threadazulDec 5
@flippac @drj what's a folder, is that some kind of app
Show threadPhilippa CowderoyDec 5
@typeswitch @drj it's even better than an app, it holds files without actually doing anything to them!
Show threadazulDec 5
@flippac @drj what's a file??
Show threadRob RixDec 5
@typeswitch @flippac @drj 💅
Show threadPaulBDec 5
@drj I was watching Bargain Hunt yesterday and they had a section where they went round a retro computer museum. The presenter was discussing the Mac Classic and was saying how one of its benefits was a built in memory card slot.
Camera panned to show floppy drive.
Show threadHelen FernandaDec 5
@drj 😂 🤣
Show threadÖlbaumDec 5
@drj I haven’t seen the icon, but I guess it’d think it means Archive.
Show threadDavid JONESDec 5
@oscherler Who can say what it truly _means_, but the hover over is "Save / Save document".
Show threadÖlbaumDec 5

@drj I initially didn’t see the word “drawer,” so I pictured the entire filing cabinet, and it made me think of the filling box often used for archiving.

The actual icon makes sense, and as you say, there’s the tooltip, in case you’d first imagine it means “inbox.”

Show threadDavid JONESDec 5
@oscherler right. and to be fair (to Gnome?) i _do_ store more of my files in drawers than in floppy disks these days. Usually original drawings, proof prints, working notes, and that sort of thing. :)
Show threadRob 🏛Dec 5
@drj @doctormo Martin, would you like to chime in?
Show threadJohn KaniarzDec 5
@drj They need to get with the present. Every icon should just be a computer chip only differing in number and shape of pins.