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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@tcrab: As I already said, those options will be restored in the next release.
@jesscat: Both the old icons and the news icons use the same symbols for delete and view (the old icons had the recycle symbol on a trash can, the new icons get rid of the trashcan). So I really dont see how the new icons are less "consistent" than the old ones. In fact, thematically, the new icons are virtually identical to the old ones. The only really different ones being the edit metadata and fetch news. So if you say you dont like the look of the new icons, sure, I can understand that. But to say that they are less consistent, just makes no sense.
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Kovid, while I still feel that way too much is being made of the icon change, I agree with others that some of the new ones are not as relevant as they could be. Simply because most computer users use Windows, it is reasonable to expect most calibre users will also be using Windows (and please, let's not get into a heated exchange over the merits/falacies of various OSs). Many of the standard icons from Windows, in one form or another, have "leaked" over to some, if not all, of the other OSs so it would be reasonable to assume Windows and similar icons to be standard.
In the case of the book removal icon, I never even noticed the recycle symbol on the trashcan and even if I had, I still would have associated the trashcan with disposing of something. Even in the physical world, I associate trashcans as a means for disposing of something which I have no further use. Whether the ultimate destination of the trashcan contents is a landfill or a recycling plant is immaterial to the purpose for me putting that material into the can, which is getting it out of my life forever (this is not to denigrate recycling). Hence (probably) my not "seeing" the recycling symbol on the old trashcan but only the trashcan. I'm sure others here have similar feelings which would explain why there have been so many feeling the recycle symbol is inconsistant with disposing of unwanted books.
I am also an old fart who is probably at least twice your age (btw, that was not a putdown; if anything, I'm jealous of your youth) who also has ADD so change is really jarring for me. I manage to cope athough I generally tenaciously hold onto the old until forced to change. Still, I do manage to make the change (with varying degrees of difficulty).