On Monday, 28. January 2008, Alexander Larsson wrote: > 2) Adds generic-icon and icon attribute for mimetypes. As per some > discussions between Gnome and KDE developers. > > The generic-icon is used for looking up the icon to use if the mimetype > specific icon does not exist (i.e. the if the "application-msword" > doesn't exist, use "x-office-document"). The list of generic icon names > are availible in Table 10 in the icon naming spec. Without this addition > there is currently no way to know what generic icon to use without > hardcoding a list of types. [snip] > > Opinions?
Yay for not hardcoding generic icons! I like it. Just one thing: > If this element is not specified then the mimetype is used to generate the > generic icon by using the top-level media type (e.g. "video" in "video/ogg") > and appending "-x-generic" (i.e. "video-x-generic" in the previous example). > Only one <userinput>generic-icon</userinput> element is allowed. I'm not sure if an application-x-generic icon makes sense... any measures to avoid checking or even having that one? _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
