Hi everyone and thank you for your hard work.
I'm running FreeBSD 9.2 and trying to configure a custom desktop consisting of
openbox wm,
pcmanfm file browser, midori web-browser etc. -- a minimalistic desktop
configuration. No DE: no gnome, no lxde, no kde etc.
I also installed some gtk themese and icons, including engines and some gnome
stuff.
THE PROBLEM: Now what I'm noticing is that some mime type icons are not
displayed by the file browser, other ones are ugly while better ones are
installed in the same icon subfolder; so I started digging to figure out how
this is being determined at all.
For example: certain icons are used, while other ones from the same icon set
are not, file browser only shows file name and no icon.
At that the right-click menu offers the right app to handle the file... So,
defining a certain "gtk-icon-theme-name" in my .gtkrc-2.0 makes no difference,
as obviously icons from that theme ARE used, while others are not (all icons
are PNG images, no difference there either).
As I understand it, update-mime-database plays its role in the process. But
there are certain uncertanities, sorry for the pan :)
It is not clear to me, where update-mime-database utility is drawing its
information on mime types and corresponding apps??
The only folder containing FULL info on this is /usr/local/share/mime, with
"application" subfolder having all the *.xml files defining each mime-type with
an app to handle and icon to be used... Yet these are actually CREATED BY
update-mime-database itself, as well as all files in the /usr/local/share/mime
dir. So, everything in this dir is a direct RESULT of that utility, not the
source it's drawing from.
HENCE, MY QUESTION:
WHERE does update-mime-database draw its data from when creating all these
files, can anybody please tell me?
Because whatever files I HAVE found on my system so far, which would be more or
less related to this, is all a RESULT of this utility, not the source of its
"inspiration" so to say.
With kindest regards,
Kostya Berger
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