Bug 472089 - "New Partition Table" icon is confusing
Summary: "New Partition Table" icon is confusing
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: partitionmanager
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 23.04.2
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrius Štikonas
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Reported: 2023-07-09 03:16 UTC by mashkal2000@gmail.com
Modified: 2023-07-09 21:57 UTC (History)
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2023-07-09 03:16 UTC, mashkal2000@gmail.com
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Description mashkal2000@gmail.com 2023-07-09 03:16:44 UTC
Created attachment 160209 [details]
button

The icon used for the new partition table button is confusing, particularly when the drive is fresh and has no existing partition table. The existing icon implies actions like "delete", "backspace", and "undo", which is not what that button does.
Comment 1 Andrius Štikonas 2023-07-09 10:55:22 UTC
(In reply to mashkal2000@gmail.com from comment #0)
> Created attachment 160209 [details]
> button
> 
> The icon used for the new partition table button is confusing, particularly
> when the drive is fresh and has no existing partition table. The existing
> icon implies actions like "delete", "backspace", and "undo", which is not
> what that button does.

Which icon (in the breeze icon set) do you think would work better?
Comment 2 mashkal2000@gmail.com 2023-07-09 19:06:12 UTC
(In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #1)
> (In reply to mashkal2000@gmail.com from comment #0)
> > Created attachment 160209 [details]
> > button
> > 
> > The icon used for the new partition table button is confusing, particularly
> > when the drive is fresh and has no existing partition table. The existing
> > icon implies actions like "delete", "backspace", and "undo", which is not
> > what that button does.
> 
> Which icon (in the breeze icon set) do you think would work better?

Perhaps object-columns.svg, or a simple plus like list_add.svg. Maybe folder-add.svg, though that may be more relevant to partitions than partition tables.
Comment 3 Andrius Štikonas 2023-07-09 21:57:50 UTC
I've discussed this with KDE Visual Design Group. To summarise:

* The icon should communicate the destructiveness of the actions.
* There isn't really anything better right now, perhaps the best way forward would be to create a new icon based on "tools-media-optical-erase".