Bug 391855 - Wish: "clear" icon that uses broom iconography
Summary: Wish: "clear" icon that uses broom iconography
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Breeze
Classification: Plasma
Component: Icons (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: visual-design
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Reported: 2018-03-14 15:15 UTC by Nate Graham
Modified: 2018-07-03 22:08 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Nate Graham 2018-03-14 15:15:39 UTC
We would like a broom-style clear icon that connotes "clean this stuff up" more than "delete this". This would be used in the Notifications and Clipboard plasmoids for their clear buttons. See related discussion in https://phabricator.kde.org/D11306

Visually, we're envisioning something like this: https://png.icons8.com/broom/win8/1600
Comment 1 Christian (Fuchs) 2018-03-14 15:33:56 UTC
+1 from me, 

a special +1 for a broom, that is also used by other icon sets (e.g. tango) as it is

1) independent of the location of items to be cleared  (e.g. the sometimes used <x]  icon looks bad on RTL languages) 

2) rather culturally independent

3) known and recognizable
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-03-26 04:06:35 UTC
The "edit-paste-style" icon looks kind of like a hand broom. It also looks kind of like a paintbrush too though.
Comment 3 Christian (Fuchs) 2018-03-26 11:42:15 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> The "edit-paste-style" icon looks kind of like a hand broom. It also looks
> kind of like a paintbrush too though.

Yes, and it is already used as that in various places  (e.g. to copy and paste formatting), so it's not a candidate. 

Something similar but more broom-looking would be perfect :)
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-03-26 12:49:30 UTC
Yeah, I only found out about it because Lollypop (an excellent GTK music player) uses this icon as a clear button, so evidently the developer Cedric Bellegarde had the same idea as us.
Comment 5 Aleix Pol 2018-06-14 14:54:17 UTC
FWIW, there's an "edit-clear-all" that could make sense using?
https://phabricator.kde.org/source/breeze-icons/browse/master/icons/actions/symbolic/edit-clear-all-symbolic.svg

It looks like a broom too.
Comment 6 andreas_k 2018-06-14 15:33:58 UTC
good idea will check and submit a broom.