On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:37:04PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> I was running AbiWord (I wanted to see what the GNOME style was for
> showing recently opened files on an application's File menu - it appears
> that they're listed as individual items at the bottom of the menu, which
> I seem to remember might also be the way it's done in Windows; our "Open
> Recent" is more Mac OS-like), and noticed that it had a toolbar item for
> "Save As" - it looked like a floppy disk with a pencil or pen poised
> above the label.
>
> I don't know whether we would want that or not.
(BTW, there's actually an ISO standard for "User system interfaces and
symbols", ISO 11581. ISO 11581-6 is the section on "Icon symbols and
functions":
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/teaching/cs4/www/hci/guidelines/ISO-11581-6.pdf
and there's also a section on "Pointer icons" (i.e., cursors):
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/teaching/cs4/www/hci/guidelines/ISO-11581-3.pdf
which allows either an hour glass, a wrist watch, or a desk clock as a
"busy" cursor (so Windows and UNIX+X are OK; they don't show a Spinning
Beachball of Death, so I guess UNIX+Aqua, a/k/a Mac OS X, is out of luck
:-)).)