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Bug 637031 - Cancel icon in v2.32 is confusing (looks like a "record" symbol)
Cancel icon in v2.32 is confusing (looks like a "record" symbol)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: adwaita-icon-theme
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.31.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jakub Steiner
Jakub Steiner
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-12-11 17:54 UTC by antistress
Modified: 2010-12-13 11:46 UTC
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Description antistress 2010-12-11 17:54:24 UTC 
I've found the cancel icon in gnome-icon-theme 2.32 to be confusing. 
It looks like a "record" icon (see gnome-sound-recorder for instance). 
It's even more confusing within a audio/video application (1) where the user may expect that kind of functionality.

Thanks

(1) See PiTiVi for an exemple :
http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/new-project-settings.png
http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/new-render-progress-dialog.png
Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2010-12-13 11:46:21 UTC 
The issue is in icon-naming-utils' mapping as the metaphor is perfectly appropriate to what the icon in gnome-icon-theme is -- process-stop (gtk-cancel which is yet another X symbol in gtk+ is being symlinked to process-stop). 

The intermediate mapping is being dropped though, so this awkward situation of trying to twist arms to have one metaphor fit two contexts isn't going to be an issue in future.

Closing as wontfix as the metaphor is good for process-stop.