On Thursday 27 November 2008, Jakob Petsovits wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2008, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > How about adding let's say > > > > binary-x-generic: The icon used for generic binary file types. > > The MIME type for binary files is application/octet-stream, therefore an > icon for binary files must be named application-octet-stream.
Well, the MIME type for ALL binary files certainly isn't application/octet-stream, and because the "Standard MIME Type Icons" list already contained some entries that are not obviously directly derived from real/official MIME types, I thought (without knowing much at all about the spec) that continuing down that path would be ok. But I don't really care what it's called, only a bit about that _something_ to this effect gets added to the spec :) > I would agree that this totally belongs into the icon naming spec (good > luck getting it in :P ) but even if it's not in there, pretty much every > serious theme should ship with such an icon. > > ...what? gnome-icon-theme does not have an application-octet-stream icon? > Dude. Well, good luck getting it into the spec then. Mmh, I don't know about the history around the spec but "good luck getting it in" doesn't sound too encouraging. Contacting this list was the only instruction about feedback to the spec I found - does the "good luck" part imply that I should be contacting someone else about it or be prepared to do something else besides start this discussion? I don't have an account for editing the Wiki, could someone who does add an entry about this to http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/icon-naming-spec/to-be-named ? _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg