Inconsistency of actions vs. icons

[mflorea]

I’m fine with your proposal on standardizing the delete icon.

@tkrieck

t’s an interesting perspective, I never thought about it. But IMO, a left arrow goes too much in the idea of navigation. Akin to the back button on Android or the browser. Sometimes it makes sense. But on a dialog, for example, I don’t think it would work too well (in this case the left arrow would close the dialog).

I agree with you. Most of the time Cancel doesn’t mean go back, but stop the current process. And sometimes we even have a Back / Previous button, like on the AWM wizard, so using the left arrow icon for Cancel would be confusing in that case. I’m not even sure we need an icon for Cancel.

@tkrieck

How do you feel about clearing a lot of icons from the interface?

I wouldn’t remove the icons unless they are really far-fetched. Most of the icons from the More actions menu look good to me. I would try to find an alternative for “Move / Rename”, “Annotate”, “Source” and “Siblings”, and if there’s no better one, then drop. But for the rest, I would keep the icons.

Thanks,
Marius