Hello All,

I just committed a major change to Enlightenment File Manager so it
will use Efreet to load FreeDesktop.Org (FDO) mime types and
associated icons. These icons will come from icon theme set at
Settings -> Look -> Icon Theme and existence of icons will thus depend
on it. For instance Tango does not provide "folder" icon, but Oxygen
(KDE4) is very complete and looks really good. If icons are not found,
then it will fallback to E17 theme default, so if you're using Tango
you'll keep seeing E17 folder icon and not Tango's.

With that change we can now remove most icons from E17 theme and we
should create a freedesktop-compliant set. This is good because we can
have KDE and Gnome to use or icons (or at least most of them!) and
make look & feel similar, improving usability. So we need artists
(Toma? ManoWarrior?) to take care to provide such set.

I'd like to ask themers/artists to look at E17 icon usage and try to
see if icons could use the standard naming scheme, so we share more.
Please see 
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html

Worth noting that at least on e17 code we still alow .edj icons, not
sure about Efreet but we could fix it to allow that as well. With that
we can still have nice animated icons using our technology and not
restrict to boring PNGs.

Last but not least, it's not all happiness. Efreet is potentially not
as fast as we hope it could be. The cache needs to be fixed/improved,
we need to really speedup mimetype caching and icon finding. So if you
find out slow cases, report. If you have coding skills, try to
improve. Ask me (k-s) or Nicholas Hughart (mekius) at IRC.

Regards,

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Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
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