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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Names for KOffice's MIME type icons
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2003-12-19 7:05:37
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Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 10:01, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>Nicolas Goutte wrote:
>>
>>>On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:26, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>
>>>>James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>
>>>(...)
>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>As the mime types are defined in kdelibs, the icons must be there too.
>>
>>Sort of begs the question as other applications define their own MIME
>>types. :-)
>>
>>Oh, well.
> 
> 
> The theory is that all mime types needed by KDE should be in kdelibs. Of 
> course, as KOffice supports 2 versions of KDE it is a little difficult, 
> therefore koffice/mimetypes/kde31 was created to add the missing mime types 
> existing in KDE 3.2 but not in KDE 3.1. (The mime icon situation is perhaps 
> even uglier in koffice/mimetypes/kde31 as for example the OO ones are using 
> the same (non-KDE) icons as OO, which was changed in KDE 3.2 to use KDE 
> icons.)

OK, that makes sense.

One slight problem: Kexi.

If you search KOffice-1.3 and KDELibs-3.2 for: "x*kexi*.desktop" you will find that there 
is a slight disagreement on the MIME type(s).

Should I submit a bug report on this?

--
JRT

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