#2023 NORM Untriag: Rethinking the escape icon

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#2023: Rethinking the escape icon
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 Reporter:  Eben         |       Owner:  mlj      
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  hardware     |     Version:           
 Keywords:               |    Verified:  0        
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 Recent developments have me second-guessing the escape icon.  While it
 seemed to make sense to associate it with the close action (customarily an
 'x'), that might actually be a little bit too strong.  Additionally, the
 highly discussed and never formally resolved issue of overloading the left
 mouse button with an 'x' greatly complicates things, as it's a bad idea
 from an interaction design perspective to have multiple (actually, 3:
 mouse button, letter, esc) keys with the same description.

 For these reasons, I'm contemplating the possibility of reverting to the
 generally accepted esc icon (attached) - the circle with the arrow
 pointing out and to the upper left.  We could still maintain consistency
 with accept/cancel dialogs by placing this alternate icon in the cancel
 button instead of the 'x'.

 Finally, even with the zoom level buttons right there, the corner button
 is much easier to hit, and I find myself instinctively trying to get back
 to the home screen by way of the escape key - I suppose that's because
 that's how we generally leave fullscreen views.  I'm not sure that's
 actually a good plan or not, but this would make that a more logical
 possibility, since it wouldn't be confused with the more extreme "stop" or
 "close" action.

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