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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Names for KOffice's MIME type icons
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2003-12-15 10:13:53
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Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Monday 15 December 2003 06:43, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> (...)
> 
>>This icon needs to be renamed.  So the obvious question is: What should the
>>name of the KOffice MIME type icons be?  I would think that they should be
>>called:
>>
>>	<app-name>-<suffix>.png
>>
>>If I were doing it, I would use the 3 character file extension as the
>>suffix.  But, we don't seem to have 3 character file extensions for all of
>>the Koffice applications (including Karbon14).
> 
> 
> Please do not assume that file extensions are always 3 letters long. What is 
> wrong with long extensions? (CP/M, MS-DOS and similar are history.) 
> 
I guess that the only thing wrong with long ones is that they are long. :-)

> Can the icon not be karbon-karbon.png? Or sompething like karbon-mime.png or 
> mime-karbon.png?

Yes, they can be something else.  They will have to be since the way I was naming MIME 
icons was based on a 3 character file extension.  But, it isn't just this, I ran into 
trouble first with Gnumeric -- which also has a long extension.

GNOME used: "gnome-application-x-gnumeric.png" for gnumeric.  I'm not sure that such a 
long file name for the icon would be a good idea but one thing in its favor is that 
because it uses the MIME type, there should be no duplicates.

You could use: "mime" or "file".  And, there is also the question of whether: "-" or "_" 
is preferable.

--
JRT

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