Thank you - to fill in the blanks for you: MIME descriptions: > No, I have to disappoint you here. It is not simple anymore. It is > generally considered to be an admin's job. I am the Admin
> 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" I do not advocate "another pre-defined set" of descriptions - merely the ability to change them. 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. Thanks again - I will dig around - and any additional help is always welcome. best regards Rich On 8/10/05, Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- > Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBC+iFHWfvsaU5lO4kRAs2RAKC0smr73IW1Au4dQpLGw4WB8LpAAgCgkz8a > EB+ooEZywV7BM6KvQ87rm2E= > =2dcI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
