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Discovery/Inventory Reboot icon

Brian Bergin
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The "reboot" icon in Discovery/Inventory is an On/Off button not a reboot.  I'd use a circle with 2 arrows in it to or a Pause/Play combo button to indicate reboot, not an On/Off icon.

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David Harper
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

The power icon does seem to get used  fairly frequently for reboot, but then so does different variations on the circle with arrows.  I might throw this one open to the broader audience and see if we can get an avalanche of opinion either way.

I'm certainly not averse to changing the icon, but it would be good to get a few more opinions on this one, since I don't think this is quite as clear cut as some of the other icons.

Cheers,

Dave.

How about something like the "reset" button that Hyper-V uses?  To me the O/I button means to turn off or turn on, not reboot/reset.

For those who don't use Hyper-V, the icon Brian is talking about looks something like this: