<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi everyone and thank you for your hard work.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>I'm running FreeBSD 9.2 and trying to configure a custom desktop consisting of openbox wm,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>pcmanfm
file browser, midori web-browser etc. -- a minimalistic desktop configuration. No DE: no gnome, no lxde, no kde etc.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>I also installed some gtk themese and icons, including engines and some gnome stuff.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>THE PROBLEM: Now what I'm noticing is that some mime type icons are not displayed by the file browser, other ones are
ugly while better ones are installed in the same icon subfolder; so I started digging to figure out how </span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">this is being determined at all.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>For example: certain icons are used, while other ones from the same icon set are not, file browser only shows file name and no icon.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>At that the right-click menu offers the right app to handle the file... So, defining a certain "gtk-icon-theme-name" in my .gtkrc-2.0 makes no difference, as obviously icons from that theme ARE used, while others are not (all icons are PNG images, no difference there either).</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">As I understand it, <span style="font-weight: bold;">update-mime-database </span>plays its role in the process. But there are certain uncertanities, sorry for the pan :)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">It is not clear to me, where <span style="font-weight: bold;">update-mime-database</span> utility is drawing its information on mime types and corresponding apps??</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">The only folder containing FULL info on this is <span style="font-weight: bold;">/usr/local/share/mime</span>, with "<span style="font-weight: bold;">application</span>" subfolder having all the <span style="font-weight: bold;">*.xml</span> files defining each mime-type with an app to handle and icon to be used... Yet these are actually CREATED BY <span style="font-weight: bold;">update-mime-database </span>itself, as well as all files
in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">/usr/local/share/mime</span> dir. So, everything in this dir is a direct RESULT of that utility, not the source it's drawing from.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">HENCE, MY QUESTION:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">WHERE does update-mime-database draw its data from when creating all these files, can anybody please tell me?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;
font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Because whatever files I HAVE found on my system so far, which would be more or less related to this, is all a RESULT of this utility, not the source of its "inspiration" so to say.</div><div></div><div> </div><div>With kindest regards,<br><span style="color:rgb(0, 64, 127);">Kostya Berger</span><br></div> <div><br></div></div></body></html>