Bug 5723

Summary: Bad Metaphor Used for edit-delete Icon
Product: tango Reporter: Juan C Nuno <juancnuno>
Component: icon themeAssignee: Jakub Steiner <jimmac>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: high CC: daniel.holbach, lionel, mathrick, slomo
Version: CVS   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Juan C Nuno 2006-01-26 05:57:08 UTC
The current edit-delete icon is the internationally recognized symbol for "no."
 Which is different than "remove" or "delete."  I'm using the Tango icon theme
on my Ubuntu 5.10, and I see that "no" icon in Evolution for the Trash folder
and the Delete Message action and it just doesn't fit for me.

May I recommend the user-trash recycle bin with an arrow pointing into it, for
"move to trash?"
Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2006-01-26 08:33:05 UTC
From the description these are actually two bugs. One is that evolution and some
other apps are using the wrong gtk icon for trash. They should not use
stock_delete. While in gnome icon theme delete action happens to be a trash,
that metaphor has its issues.

The other bug is that the current edit-delete icon metaphor is not appropriate,
which I happen to kinda agree with. I don't have any better propositions right
now. Making it a trash bin like in git poses problems -- some delete actions
have nothing to do with the trash and we are confusing the user into thinking
so. Adding an arrow doesn't take that problem away.
Comment 2 Daniel Holbach 2006-02-10 21:59:55 UTC
The issue about the Evolution trash icon was raised in
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/tango-icon-theme/+bug/31034 as well.
Comment 3 Lionel Dricot 2006-03-23 21:04:55 UTC
It's only a suggestion but what about a document destructor? Things like that :
http://www.lhommemoderne.com/product/260-260/12239.jpg who cut your document
into tiny pieces of paper so nobody can read them anymore.

It can maybe give a good metaphor that you will "destroy" the data without being
able to take it back.
Comment 4 Rodney Dawes 2006-04-12 06:39:51 UTC
*** Bug 6516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jakub Steiner 2006-06-13 03:53:47 UTC
I'll give the shredder a try.
Comment 6 Rodney Dawes 2006-07-24 12:58:35 UTC
The icon in CVS is now a shredder. I'm marking this as fixed.

Use of freedesktop.org services, including Bugzilla, is subject to our Code of Conduct. How we collect and use information is described in our Privacy Policy.