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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[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 > > [2] > ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.11/2.11.91/sources/gnome-icon-theme-2.11.91.tar.bz2 > > -- > Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBC/FjmWfvsaU5lO4kRAuaGAKDCOFzAbpf/vHOwbR/ClnwZxPo7qACfdLdG > g5KU4tYd5lGus1QXwczbtDk= > =+cm1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
