Generic icons support in shared-mime-info

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 13:42 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Heya,
> > 
> > It took me a while, but the ~250 mime-types that required generic-icon
> > (all the application/ mime-types and a bunch of others) in the
> > shared-mime-info database now have generic-icons added to them.
> > 
> > I'll release shared-mime-info 0.24 some time next week after the
> > translators have had time to catch up on the new strings.
> 
> Can you remind me the correct way to use generic-icons? The spec isn't 100% clear about this:
> it's meant as a fallback if the iconname based on the mimetype name doesn't exist, right?
> 
> So 
>   <mime-type type="application/x-ole-storage">
>     <generic-icon name="x-office-document"/>
> means:
>   use <icon> field if set,
>   otherwise use "application-x-ole-storage" as icon if it exists,
>   otherwise use "x-office-document" as icon if it exists
> right?
> 

That was my interpretation, too. And it is what I've implemented in gio.