[Tango-artists] mime types and files

[Rodney Dawes]

Tango is not going to cover all possible mime types in the base theme.
It is meant to provide a generic base set of icons. Aside from that,
text really shouldn't be placed into icons. The filename should tell
you what it is, along with the icon. The icon should only contain shapes
and colors, ideally.

-- dobey


On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 12:55 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> You must know the deal, you´ve just installed some icon set and it doesn
> ´t cover all mime types.
> 
> So how about an emblem style approach? A theme could specify a location
> (x,y) and size of an overlay. You have a default background, say for
> text/code/image files, then the extension/specific type is overlayed on
> the background.
> 
> What do you guys think?
> 
> Regards,
>   Karl