Comment 25 for bug 194213

Cody Russel wrote:
> I find the cut icons very confusing. They exist on different corners of
> the icons, and they exist on both dimmed icons and non-dimmed
> icons.

Sorry about that. As said, I had just taken David’s mockup. The small emblems are on different corners to try out different possibilities.

manzur wrote:
> I do not love the scissor idea, diming files is a good idea to begin, I
> think everyone agree with it, but the sissor idea is very heavy for me
> and i do not really like it, simpler things are better...

As mentioned, I’m not an artist. My mockup should just show the general idea which could be fleshed out by a good artist. Of course the emblems could be grayed out (unless moving your mouse over the icon, maybe?) or completely different – as long as the user is still able to recognize them. Taking the stock icons for copy/cut was just the quickest solution ;-)

There is one advantage about my idea that I perhaps failed to make clear enough in my original comment: with different emblems the idea provides for both cut and copy actions (which is not shown in my mockup). Also, there are probably already provisions in Nautilus for handling such emblems; at least there are the default Nautilus emblems which should work similarly.