The floppy disk as symbol for saving

6 December, 2005 - 16:18

Why is the floppy disk still used as symbol/icon on widgets related to saving a document? Who uses floppy disks nowadays? People that worked with computers ten years ago will know what that icon stands for, but for the younger and future generation it is/will be probably an ugly squarisch thing. Maybe it's time to dump the floppy disk icon and think about an alternative representation of the save action?

Some people at dot.kde.org agree on this: http://dot.kde.org/1132098617/1132173875/

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