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Let's pray for the day that future generations will know that to be the Super key, but like the floppy disk icon for 'Save' they won't know why it is what it is.
I've noticed libreoffice has changed their save symbol. It's a grey rectangle (taller than it is wide) with a darker grey arrow pointing down.
Download?
Yeah maybe. Could be trying to make it clear it's not uploading to a cloud or something lol.
Or maybe it means "put it down" (as in record, not discard).
Save? It's done automatically now. In the cloud!