In a lot of cases, the distinction doesn’t really matter. If it does in a particular application, I’d probably prefer words to make the nuance clear – but an arrow to cloud + arrow to disk/folder may be appropriate for some of the cases if an icon is required too.
In GIMP 2.10 on my system, there’s a small difference between Save and Save As’s icons. I think they added a pen over the hard disk the arrow is pointing towards – presumably to indicate re-labeling? The difference is just barely visually distinguishable on my screen though. There’s also an Export option (which has no icon, despite it being something I use a fair bit more than many of the other File menu commands) and a “Send by Email…” option with pencil over some paper with lines on it (presumably lines of text that’s too small to be distinct).
xed on my system has an arrow pointing at a line for Save and an arrow with a line plus 3 dots over it for Save As. Only the Save icon is on the toolbar; the other is in the File menu. I’ve actually never noticed that distinction before, and if I weren’t actively looking for save icons in the software I have installed right now, I don’t know if I’d have ever noticed…
LibreOffice still has a (very stylized) floppy disk on the toolbar for Save and no icons whatsoever in the file menu on my system.
KolourPaint uses an arrow pointing into the drawer of a filing cabinet in the toolbar, and a much more squashed version of that in the File menu – along with something additional (a partially filed in text box to indicate relabeling?) above the Save As variant in the File Menu.
Not sure if I have any other software that I still use regularly which has a Save icon… (My browser just uses text without any icons for save from File menu or via right click menu.)
In a lot of cases, the distinction doesn’t really matter. If it does in a particular application, I’d probably prefer words to make the nuance clear – but an arrow to cloud + arrow to disk/folder may be appropriate for some of the cases if an icon is required too.
In GIMP 2.10 on my system, there’s a small difference between Save and Save As’s icons. I think they added a pen over the hard disk the arrow is pointing towards – presumably to indicate re-labeling? The difference is just barely visually distinguishable on my screen though. There’s also an Export option (which has no icon, despite it being something I use a fair bit more than many of the other File menu commands) and a “Send by Email…” option with pencil over some paper with lines on it (presumably lines of text that’s too small to be distinct).
xed on my system has an arrow pointing at a line for Save and an arrow with a line plus 3 dots over it for Save As. Only the Save icon is on the toolbar; the other is in the File menu. I’ve actually never noticed that distinction before, and if I weren’t actively looking for save icons in the software I have installed right now, I don’t know if I’d have ever noticed…
LibreOffice still has a (very stylized) floppy disk on the toolbar for Save and no icons whatsoever in the file menu on my system.
KolourPaint uses an arrow pointing into the drawer of a filing cabinet in the toolbar, and a much more squashed version of that in the File menu – along with something additional (a partially filed in text box to indicate relabeling?) above the Save As variant in the File Menu.
Not sure if I have any other software that I still use regularly which has a Save icon… (My browser just uses text without any icons for save from File menu or via right click menu.)