Mimetype Icons (Was: Shared mimetypes + activation)

[Waldo Bastian]

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Hi,

The status of mimetype icons seems to be accurately described by this posting:
	http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-March/003509.html

The intended standard seems to be mentioned in passing at the bottom of:
	http://pdx.freedesktop.org/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec

And reads as follows:
"Icon theme specification

This can be used to locate an icon to represent a given MIME type. The icon 
name is of the form mime-media:subtype (for example: mime-text:plain). If no 
specific icon is found, fallback to mime-media (eg, mime-text). Note that 
there is an older (GNOME-specific) set of icon names. These do not correspond 
to the MIME names used in this new database, although they may be useful as a 
fallback."

(1) I would like to know whether this description is considered accurate, in 
particular whether the colon character ':' should be used as separator 
between "text" and "plain". This would be unfortunate because on some 
filesystems ':' is not a valid character in filenames.

(2) I suggest that, after addressing (1), this paragraph is added to the Icon 
Theme specification.

Cheers,
Waldo


On Fri April 23 2004 13:26, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last night I have been talking with Jonathan Blandford about the shared
> mimetype spec and the activation issues. Both Jonathan and I hope to move
> that forward in the next weeks.
>
> Some relevant threads from the past:
> *  MIME Activation
> 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.xdg.devel/554 (Mar 2003)
> *  Default Program | File Association
> 	http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-January/003134.html
> * Associating a mime-type with an icon
> 	http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-February/003390.html
> 	http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-March/003493.html
> * Associating programs with file types (
> 	http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-March/003442.html
>
> A proposal for the behavior of the new MIME system in GNOME:
> 	http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/mime/
>
> The issues that need to be looked at can be split into two distinct
> problems: * Which icon to use for a mimetype (icons)
> * Which actions/programs are associated with a mimetype (activation)
>
> For ease of reference I will bifurcate (I learned a new word!) this thread
> into one for icons and one for activation. More to come... stay tuned.
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo

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