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Modernizing the Save Icon?
floppy-less asks: "In nearly every modern GUI, the floppy disk icon is used to symbolize saving files. With the fate of floppy disks becoming apparent, what will become of the esteemed 'Save to Disk' icon? Will it become a CD-R? a hard drive? a portrait of Jesus?"
It'll be a butt with a checkmark over it.
Moses invests.
echo
Plastic wrap, or foil, how about tupperware. How about a wedding ring, symbolizing commitment?
:wq
looks nothing like a floppy...what are you people smoking?
I've come across dozens of people who seriously believe that the computer casing is the hard drive. Anything within the big box with the power button is the hard drive to them.
What makes it much, much worse is that they NEVER LEARN. Ever! I've tried explaining it to some of them several times to no avail.
(-1 Redundant)
Hey! Why not?
He gives you the thumbs up for saving!
Sure they would - it's that big tower under their desk!
---- Just another spud server.
quite obviously a picture of a condom
Why is Christ portrayed with sheep? Psalm 23? The references to Christ as a lamb and shepherd thick throughout the Gospels? I'm no Christian, but this stuff is basic Western Civ, man.
'jfb
To spur "enterprise Linux," Big Bang, the distributed two-phase commit.
Ok, you can have Save be the portrait of Jesus if you have the Trash Can become a portrait of Bush.
You're going to try to convince me that there aren't literal manila folders inside my computer?
prior art
prepare for an offtopic..
couldn't figure out why my printer was jammed, looked inside, and i see a little green army man trying to help me out.
thanks son..:-)
this is just a placeholder till i send back my real sig from the future.
I can honestly say I've never seen such a thing.
Exactly right. The icon should represent the idea behind saving rather than the actual physical media itself. And one thing that will not change in the near future is the serialization of our virtual world into a stream of bits to be laid down one by one onto a writing surface. Therefore "Serialization" should be the concept that becomes iconified so that no change of paradigm in the future will leave us mystified once again as to what is meant by some digital Picasso's amorphous pictograph.
Of course we should take care to differentiate the type of serial that we mean from its homonym 'cereal' so that we don't end up with little pictures of Lucky the Leprachaun all over our programs. Because with his fruity image and rainbow coalition colored marshmellows, Lucky could too easily be confused with the command to "change your preferences". Therefore I propose that a small picture of Charlie Manson be used to represent the Save command. Think about it. He is a universally recognized 20th century figure who will forever be associated with the word "serial". And using his image without permission shouldn't be much of a problem. After all, what's he gonna do, sue for defamation of character? Furthermore any religious types out there who don't want to explain his relevance to their children can just tell them it is Jesus and 'Jesus Saves' as the original post suggested. I mean, come on, have you ever seen a tiny picture of Charlie Manson and a tiny picture of Jesus side by side? As long as they don't get out a magnifying glass and notice the swastika on his forehead, who could tell? And if Rod and Todd do happen to notice, tell them it is just a caste mark that the Indian programmers put there because they were jealous and wish Jesus had been one of them.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Do you find it sicker that I've made a mock-up of a toolbar icon for ^x^s (Emacs save command) or that I've made one for :w (vi save command) as well?
Personally, I use command-s. Crazy clutterd windows toolbars make me woozy.
wow, worst ask slashdot ever
(emacs zealots refrain from modding, plz)
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
That way the next gen will have no problems grasping its use
There used to be a Mac program which found every unique icon on the machine and displayed them all on one screen. Terrifying.