Now that you moved the UV Editor icon, you replaced it with a different icon @V3. What is this for?
This is a monochrome clone of an icon from the 2.5, that was used in UV/Image Editor, but this very function (canāt recall its name) is not present in 2.8 anymore. Some time ago I suggested to use this pictogram for the UV Editor, but in the meantime Iāve found that the current UV Map icon is visually too strong (the V22 from before 21-12-2018 update) so a new proposal was made (the V22 - 21-12-2018 updade). Since the previous UV Map icon is with no use and it shares the shape with new UV Map, it seems that it fits the UV Editor better then well. Iād save the V3 icon for some future use within the UV Editor. I bet it will find an appropriate function sooner than later.
Not the William-against-the-whole-world thing again. 
The floppyās proponents gave their arguments, but have been blatantly ignored or countered with non-arguments.
Please. Just. Use. The. Floppy. Icon.
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Keep talking, but I think that this matter requires a special commission and at least two subcommittees. Then things will get the right pace.
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What is the icon where the UV Editor icon used to be?
The release log proclaims:
- The UV Editor gets an icon in a new location in the icon sheet - Z25 (@William).
- The UV Map icon gets new look - W22.
Yes I saw that, but where the UV icon used to be (V3) there is now a different icon. Thatās the one Iām asking about.
Itās for the UV Map data:
I still donāt get it. Isnāt that what this is for? This is GROUP_UVS (what you call UV Map):
Iām talking about this icon, where the UV Editor icon used to be (V3). What is this for:
You added this icon, but I canāt see an explanation of what itās for.
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The V3 icon is there since a long time. It has no use at the moment. It seems it was an editorās icon in post 2.5 era.
Ok, Iāve got a patch for the new icons ready. We should be able to include them shortly.
I also made a patch for more themable icon colors, but have a few more technical issues to fix there.
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Except that there is absolutely nothing wrong or misleading about the standard save icon. Blender, until we live in your saving-less utopia, currently writes data to a PHYSICAL DISC. Icons, like words, do have meaning. And this icon literally means SAVE TO A PHYSICAL DISC, which is exactly whatās happening. If your argument is that itās not saving to an actual 3 1/2 inch floppy then Iām afraid you donāt really understand the purpose of icons.
Honestly, the justifications youāre using for your decision are not very strong. I think at this point itād actually be preferable to just have no icon at all.
Really sad to have to argue over something so self-evident to everyone else. Itās like colored wireframes all over again. I was really hoping with 2.8 Blender was finally getting past this kind of thing.
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The problem here is that Lightroom operates on some files, and writes only changes made by you into another file and that files with changes are extremely small. Inside Lightroom is very limited number of things that you can do and they can be easily represented on very small files. File with hundreds of steps in edit history takes few MB on your hard drive. With 3d software, or software like photoshop is quite different. You create a file from scratch and each file can be like few GB. Storing the whole history would make you whole disk full just for one project. Thatās why I canāt see save functionality gone in such software in near future.
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Hey wasnāt the 2.8 tagline āMake Blender ready for the next decadeā? So, are sure working will be so different in the next years, all around the world?
very well, now with the consent of J & W (they hold the token after all) we could carry on and bikeshed elsewhereā¦ what about the ādeleteā icon? LoL
Well, I guess Iāll replace the Check Mark the Save icon with a Floppy the Save.
I also have one more reason for this - different from the generally accepted meaning of the floppy icon. This reason is the picotgamās form, which is perfect for our needs. The silhouette of this icon is absolutely simple and compact and the detail is modest but clear and unobtrusive. There is no visual noise. Least but not last, the symbol does not consist of several smaller elements - it is uniform and widely recognizable at a glance. These are the real reasons for the great popularity of a floppy disk as the depiction of saving electronic data. And thatās why Iām going to use it, despite the unwillingness of @William.
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Although I am only able to give one āheartā to your comment, please know that I pressed the button many timesā¦
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