As it seems, nearly every windows executable contains at least a 32x32
icon. 48x48 px, default icon size used by Nautilus is pretty rare in
older applications, thus we can't rely on it and just use the native
icon. Stretching it, as Windows does with e.g. ctfmon.exe, is not an
option for us - we want our OS to be pretty. Even if we had the 48x48
icon for every app, the result would be rather unpleasant, because most
Windows icons obviously doesn't follows our style guidelines. What's
more, it would be good to show somehow that the .exe file will be opened
in some specialized application rather than ran directly.

So this situation directly urges one to put the extracted 32x32 icon
over slightly tilted 48x48 wine glass icon with some transparency on the
right place for better contrast, as you can see on attached image. Where
32x32 icon is missing, we go for smaller one (msrating.dll), or, if no
icon at all can be found or extracted, we simply use a generic thumbnail
(subinacl.exe).

** Attachment added: "exe-thumbnails-showcase.png"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51596546/exe-thumbnails-showcase.png

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In gnome-exe-thumbnailer the wine icon is too big and the exe icon is too small
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/596661
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