Re: List view help

[Richard Mancusi <vrman49 gmail com>]

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my email.  Since it appears
that we are in agreement on both issues, I would like to accept your
offer for you to "take care of this".  I do believe these are important
issues and would prefer your voice behind them.  If this in any way
appears that I am not willing to do my part please tell me my next
step.  I am not familiar with the procedure.

thank you
Rich


On 8/12/05, Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org> wrote:
> 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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