Save Icon modernization needed

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Sat Nov 14 14:41:42 UTC 2009


Palle Hellemann wrote:

> Just a thought:
> My 11 year old daughter asked: "How do I save a document?"
> I answered: "You just click on the Floppydisk Icon in the Menu bar!"
> She pondered over this and then asked: "What is a Floppydisk?"

I understand that the average user today has probably never seen one (I 
found a stack last week that I can't quite bring myself to toss...), but it 
hardly makes sense to change the icon and force people who only know it as a 
"Save file" icon to learn something else.
-- 
derek





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