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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Icon improvements.
From:       "Bart Szyszka" <bart () gigabee ! com>
Date:       2001-03-08 18:46:42
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> Unless there are extremely good metaphors for copy, paste and cut
> which are 100% intuitive, easy to scale and which  will convince everybody 
> so much that it is predictable that all other existing GUIs will take the 
> same symbols in the longterm, too (because they are so great), we won't 
> change the existing standard-symbols.

I've always wondered why a paste icon is a piece of paper on a clipboard
instead of something like a glue bottle. Copy = two sheets of paper,
Cut = scissors, but paste doesn't necessarily = a clipboard w/ one sheet
of paper on it.

- Bart

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