Icon naming spec suggestions - mimetypes

[Jakob Petsovits]

On Friday, 28. December 2007, Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op woensdag 26-12-2007 om 01:02 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jakob
> Petsovits:
> > application-x-zerosize
> > The icon used for empty files.
>
> Why do those need a different icon?

Well, I wouldn't consider any other mimetype icon to be appropriate for empty 
files. Imagine a file manager that displays the text-x-generic icon for an 
empty file - this indicates that the file has contents, which is misleading.

Are there any examples of file managers (or file listings, like in the 
file-open dialog) that do not use a separate icon for empty files?