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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Names for KOffice's MIME type icons
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2003-12-17 0:26:40
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James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> The Karbon14 application icons is:
> 
>     $KDEDIR/share/icons/crystalsvg/<size>/apps/karbon.png
> 
> The Karbon14 MIME type icon that came with KDE-3.2 [HEAD] was:
> 
>     $KDEDIR/share/icons/crystalsvg/22x22//karbon.png
> 
> The other sizes are not there.  I presume that this is an error.
> 
> This was added with the change entry:
> 
>      Added missing 22x22 mimetpyes and others... [sic]
> 
> 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).
> 
> E.G. if the file extension for Karbon was: "k14" the MIME type icon for 
> Karbon14 would be:
> 
>     karbon-k14.png
> 
> As I previously said, I am willing to make these icons if that would 
> help -- if it can be established what they should be named and someone 
> would advise me the e-mail address where I could send them.
> 
> Now, if the engineer could take this a little farther:  If there is an 
> icon: "karbon.png", the file extension is: "k14", and the mimelnk icons 
> name is: karbon-k14.png, then it shouldn't be necessary to make a MIME 
> type icon because icons like I would make make could be generated 
> automatically.  See attached.
> 
> Note that with the new CrystalSVG [KDE-3.2] MIME icon style that this 
> would be a little more difficult, but it should work OK and could be 
> generalized for other styles.

I think that I am going to have to drop the generalization idea.  The attached looks much 
better for CrystalSVG and it is the style of the other MIME icons -- the KDE-3.2 style 
that is.

I'm not clear on this: is there some documentation some where on this new MIME icon style? 
  Are the top banners supposed to match the image (like I did) or are they supposed to be 
some color code by MIME type base type?  Or, should it just be blue in for KOffice MIME 
types?  If they would all be blue, then it could be generalized.

After giving this some thought and with no other input, I will use the file extension for 
the name even though we don't have three character extensions and: karbon_karbon.png looks 
somewhat odd (and use "_" for the separator).

Next question is whether this is a KOffice or a KDELibs thing.  Should KOffice provide the 
icons for the MIME types or should they come with KDELibs?

Note that in either case:

kdelibs/pics/crystalsvg/cr22-mime-karbon.png

needs to be removed.  You can't have the same icon name for the 'applnk' and the 'mimelnk' 
icons.

--
JRT

["cr48-mime-karbon_karbon.png" (image/png)]

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