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

[Kostya Berger]

Fixed this by converting it using `iconv -c ... args` command, which deleted the wrong characters...
So now generic-icons file lists the icons I wanted, but... this has no impact on the file browser and LibreOffice icons
are still missing, even though mentioned in the database now.
 
With kindest regards,
Kostya Berger





On Monday, 30 December 2013, 22:30, Kostya Berger <bergerkos at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
 
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.
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>Could that be fixed somehow?
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>With kindest regards,
>Kostya Berger
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>On Monday, 30 December 2013, 20:45, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>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
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>>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.
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>>> 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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