Re: icon naming spec and gnome-vfs

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

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>More importantly, there are classes of users who genuinely need to know
>what file format is being used. For instance:
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>- graphics professionals who need to deliver files in specific formats and
>often have the same file in multiple formats.
>- office workers who need to save their work in ODF or .sxw format, but
>sometimes have to send a copy as .doc to people who demand Word documents.
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>While they can get this information elsewhere, it's useful to see it at a
>glance.
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>For applications that have only one file format, or for files that are
>never saved in multiple file formats, it's not useful.
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>The HIG allows for this "useful"ness.
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>

I think the right solution is the following. We must drop text from document icons as suggested by Rodney and introduce a short translatable mime type description (it may be empty for some mime types) in shared-mime-info database. After that we can show the mime type description over the icon in nautilus for example.

I wonder if it's too late for this cycle but it can be certainly done in the next one.