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[Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a reason why KiCad doesn't use the standard save icon, i.e. a
floppy disk?
I think basically every piece of software I have used has the floppy disk
save icon and it might help with the arrow situation.

Cheers,
Michael

On 9 January 2018 at 17:42, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 1/9/2018 12:05 PM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> > On 09/01/18 16:50, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> I'm with Jose on the arrows.  If we are going to use them, please don't
> >> make the all different colors.  I don't see how a blue left arrow versus
> >> a magenta right arrow conveys any meaning to the user.
> >>
> >
> > I like the idea of coloring them differently. For me this will give an
> > additional way to distinguish the buttons. (Some of them have only the
> > direction of the arrow as a difference. Which is easily overlooked.) I
> > hope having different colors will make it easier for my brain to
> > remember which button does what. (I can't tell you how often i clicked
> > load symbol instead of update symbol while working on the reorganization
> > of the official lib.)
>
> What information does the different color arrow convey?  If you are
> using different colors for contrast, that is one thing but just making
> them different colors for informational purposes doesn't make any sense
> to me.  If you are trying convey information with different color
> buttons, what is the impact on users who are color blind.
>
> >
> > Maybe there is a better way to communicate differences but if buttons
> > look as similar as a lot of them currently do, adding differentiating
> > colors might help.
> >
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