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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Names for KOffice's MIME type icons
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-12-15 12:27:53
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On Monday 15 December 2003 11:13, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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.

I am just thinking: as far as I know there is some unification of mime type 
definitions in work or at least planned at http://freedesktop.org . So be 
careful that what you plan to do is not being done by someone else too (of 
course probably in another way.)

Perhaps the solution is not to rename the mime type icons, but the application 
icons (for example: app-kword.png)

>
> --
> JRT

Have a nice day!

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