[kde-artists] [Oxygen] [Bug 150731] Oxygen - change floppy save icon to a flash card

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150731

--- Comment #16 from Aaron Johnson <[email protected]> ---
Interesting about the page "about-antiquated-metaphors-in-icons". However,
notice that the document compares two icons that are totally different from
each other, both in shape, color, metaphor usage (an cabinet where papers are
placed in, with an floppy disk that is inserted into a drive) and the cabinet
even hath a down arrow adding to the confusion.

With an SD card icon that hath an similar shape, color, and (in real life)
metaphor usage, I predict that folk will be confused for about two seconds,
either clicking on the File menu to check the icon next to the Save menu item,
or hovering their mouse cursor over the icon waiting for the tool-tip to pop
up. When they see that the SD card icon does stand for Save, they will then go
on their merry way using the save button. Some will even think that it is about
time that someone replaced the antiquated floppy disk save icon.

As an aside, at my work we still have and use floppy disks and floppy drives.
We joke that some of the engineers working here were not even born when 1.44 HD
floppies came out (much less older floppy disk types).

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