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List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: [kde-artists] Mimetype icons
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2007-05-06 23:57:59
Message-ID: 463E6B87.9050701 () acm ! org
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Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer said the following, On 2007-05-06 21:04:
>> Jarosław Staniek wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>>> 8. Generic 'spreadsheet' icon could be used for 'application-x-gnumeric', 
> 
> Regarding the icon you attached: what's the benefit of having another variant 
> of spreadsheet icon to the end-user? For many people it is hard to discover 
> the icon contains a GNOME's gnumeric icon inside. To discover the application 
> that has created the file, user can read an i18n'd type name, e.g. in Dolphin 
> file manager.
> 
The purpose of having different icons for different MIME types is so 
that the user can identify the MIME type at a glance.  I think that it 
depends on how the user works whether or not this is important to them. 
  I like to be able to tell different MIME types in the same generic 
class apart, I presume that to some users that it doesn't matter, or 
they might even want all word processor documents to have the same MIME 
type icon.

I have consistently suggested that the answer to the generic type vs. 
individual MIME type issue is to support both.  How to support both is 
not an artist' issue -- we only need to make all the needed icons.

-- 
JRT
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