Re: controlling icon order

[Michael Brewer-Davis <michael tech4learning com>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Michael Brewer-Davis
> <michael tech4learning com> wrote:
> > I have installed a custom mime type with icons, using extension "pxt". I'm
> > having trouble getting the custom icons to display in nautilus in edubuntu
> > 8.04.  Instead, for these files I see the right file type ("Pixie image
> > file"), and an executable icon.
> >
> > When I query gio for the icon types, I get the following icon names:
> > application-t4l-pixie  // mine
> > application-x-generic
> > application-x-executable
>
> Where is your icon installed ? most likely, what you are seeing is a
> side-effect of
> the fallback algorithm in the icon theme spec: if you specify multiple
> names like that,
> it tries to find any of those in the current theme before falling back
> to an inherited theme.
>
> So, if gnome-icon-theme has application-x-executable, and you install
> application-t4l-pixie
> into hicolor, then you'll still get application-x-executable when the
> gnome icon theme is
> current.