shared-mime-info: update-mime-database related question

[Kostya Berger]

OK, I've found the file freedesktop.org.xml and tried to edit it in order to change the default icons used.
Now update-mime-database complains that certain strings (in other languages) are not proper UTF-8 and 
fails to update database at all, so all mime-type icons look the same.

Could that be fixed somehow?
 
With kindest regards,
Kostya Berger





On Monday, 30 December 2013, 20:45, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> wrote:
 
Packages ship their mime types in /usr/share/mime/packages. The
>default mime types are shipped in
>/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml. These are xml files
>containing all the mime types shipped by the application by its name.
>update-mime-database "splits" it into the /usr/share/mime
>subdirectories and builds some other cache files and such in that
>directory.
>J. Leclanche
>
>
>
>On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Kostya Berger <bergerkos at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi everyone and thank you for your hard work.
>>
>> I'm running FreeBSD 9.2 and trying to configure a custom desktop consisting
>> of openbox wm,
>> pcmanfm file browser, midori web-browser etc. -- a minimalistic desktop
>> configuration. No DE: no gnome, no lxde, no kde etc.
>>
>> I also installed some gtk themese and icons, including engines and some
>> gnome stuff.
>> 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
>> this is being determined at all.
>>
>> 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.
>> 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).
>>
>> As I understand it, update-mime-database plays its role in the process. But
>> there are certain uncertanities, sorry for the pan :)
>> It is not clear to me, where update-mime-database utility is drawing its
>> information on mime types and corresponding apps??
>> The only folder containing FULL info on this is /usr/local/share/mime, with
>> "application" subfolder having all the *.xml files defining each mime-type
>> with an app to handle and icon to be used... Yet these are actually CREATED
>> BY update-mime-database itself, as well as all files in the
>> /usr/local/share/mime dir. So, everything in this dir is a direct RESULT of
>> that utility, not the source it's drawing from.
>>
>> HENCE, MY QUESTION:
>> WHERE does update-mime-database draw its data from when creating all these
>> files, can anybody please tell me?
>> 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.
>>
>> With kindest regards,
>> Kostya Berger
>>
>>
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