Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!ron@brl-bmd From: ron%brl-bmd@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.works Subject: ICONS Message-ID: <2915@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jul-83 20:25:55 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2915 Posted: Fri Jul 8 20:25:55 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jul-83 03:21:16 EDT Lines: 22 From: Ron NatalieI have mixed feelings about these too. I could figure out lock (shift lock), sun (brightness), half moon (contrast between highlighted/non-highlighted), (1,0) on/off, and the variety of arrows for tab, backtab, carriage return, linefeed, newline. The cute proof readers marks for insert and delete characters required me to think a little. I couldn't figure out for the life of me what the knob with the AND gate on it was (bell volume) or the trapasoid with the lines inside it (key click) were. Another problem is even though some great American (english) mind thinks these are great symbols, are they really culture independant? An example, when in Italy I drove quite few different European cars. All had controls and idiot lights with Icons. Again it was guess work that the cross shaped thing was the choke on the truck I was driving. The pretty much standard oil light and a funny thing on it that looked like what I use to water my plants. What I think of when I think OIL CAN is a hemispherical container with a long neck protruding from the center of the sphere. So it was quite a while before I reasoned what that was. -Ron