Alexander Larsson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 17:11 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
With something like this in place the mime spec for the
application/x-scribus mimetype could specify a generic icon name that
all icon themes have, and then the file conflict issue is much less
problematic. I.E. if you don't install the icon in hicolor then themes
without the specific scribus icon will still get a not-total-crap icon
for the scribus files.
I have previously suggested on the XDG list that the: "Icon=" variable
in the 'desktop' file could have a list of possible icons, rather than
just one to be searched for in order L2R. It appears to me that this
would give the most control over specific vs. generic MIME type icons.
That would only work for application icons though, not for mime type
icons. Or am I missing something?
This would work fine for KDE 3.x.y, but would need to be adapted to the
new system.
What I left out was exactly how to adapt the idea to the new MIME
system. I presume that since the first icon in the list has its name
derived from the MIME type that it doesn't need to be explicitly listed.
So, my first thought is that the "<application>.xml" would have a list
of alternate icons:
<alternate icon="icon_1" />
<alternate icon="icon_2" />
<alternate icon="icon_3" />
I didn't actually think about exactly what would be done with this
information except that it should be used the same as if it was in the
'desktop' file.
--
JRT
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