Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2005, 11:20 -0500 schrieb Richard Mancusi: > > I wonder why you need the short MIME descriptions. > Long file names + Long MIME descriptions = list view data pushed > off the screen. Users don't like to constantly scroll over. Your PNG > example is exactly what I mean. OpenOffice isn't far behind: > "OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet" how about "OpenOffice Calc" Sounds reasonable. Are you willing to bring this up on xdg or should I take care of this? > I do not advocate "another pre-defined set" of descriptions - merely > the ability to change them. Well, the problem you're trying to solve is not only encountered by you. An upstream solution is therefore appropriate. The right solution is to include long and short descriptions. > Icons: > Some applications do not have icons assigned to them - e.g. > OpenOffice pre-2 does not have icons for the new formats > odt, ods. Ditto. Upstream solutions are great. Downstream sucks. Just grab the GNOME 2.12 beta2 gnome-icon-theme tarball [1] and install it. > On 8/10/05, Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2005, 16:20 -0500 schrieb Richard Mancusi: > > > > > csv = text document (with comma-separated values) > > > > > > Also how do I assign an icon to a file type - not a specific > > > file, the entire type? > > > > > > Both were easy in SuSE-9.2 (Gnome 2.6) - so I suspect > > > that I am simply looking in the wrong place. > > > > No, I have to disappoint you here. It is not simple anymore. It is > > generally considered to be an admin's job. > > > > I wonder why you need the short MIME descriptions. If you think this is > > really a priority, you can write an email to the XDG mailing list [1] > > trying to advocate the idea of adding short descriptions to MIME types. > > Having "PNG image" and "Portable Network Graphics image" could be > > useful, after all. If you just want a downstream solution (hint, hint > > this is not collaborative/social), you'll have to edit > > > > /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml > > > > and run > > > > update-mime-database /usr/share/mime > > > > afterwards. > > > > The icon assignment should work by entering > > > > mkdir -p ~/.icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes && > > cp <myicon_sized_48x48.png> > > ~/.icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-ogg.png > > > > Note that in the file name identifying the MIME type "application/ogg", > > '/' was replaced by '-' and the image filename was prefixed with > > "gnome-mime-". > > > > Good luck! > > > > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg [2] ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.11/2.11.91/sources/gnome-icon-theme-2.11.91.tar.bz2 -- Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
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