Re: [rox-devel] mime icon names

[Ken H. <kh...@so...>]

I don't know why they are not just put in subdirs like the actual mime 
type definition files are (meaning the shared mime info database).  
That way text/plain.png just plain works. :)


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Ken Hayber (kh...@so...)
Huntington Beach, CA
On Dec 22, 2003, at 11:40 AM, Hyrcan wrote:

> I'm sure everyone's favorite subject...
>
> As I was cleaning up my Icon Themes, and merging my KDE/GNOME/ROX 
> versions of my themes, I realized that, even though I really like the 
> MIME names ROX uses, if someone with X11 on OSX attempts to use ROX, 
> or KDE and GNOME (if we are lucky enough to see KDE and GNOME agree on 
> naming standards like ROX's) then they would have broken Icon themes.  
>  Mac osX does not allow : through the osX GUI.  This is not that big 
> of a problem, because you CAN have : though the console, which I 
> believe would allow X11 to access the files.
> The problem lies in the fact when some one downloads the theme archive 
> they HAVE to use the console to un tar them...if they don't then  osX 
> or stuffit changes the : to ;
> I found a thread on the xdg-list where Owen Taylor and Thomas Leonard 
> touched on the naming subject.
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/xdg-list/2003-June/msg00073.html
>
> <snip>
>
> The set of characters you can't have in a media type token are:
>
> "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@" /
> "," / ";" / ":" / "\" / <">
> "/" / "[" / "]" / "?" / "="
>
> Of these, ':' strikes me as the best replacement for '/'. (';' has the 
> possibility of confusion with mime type
> parameter lists)
>
> </snip>
>
> Not sure what the solution would be... beside using a different 
> symbol.... like @ or = or some such then...but of course there may be 
> a possibility of confusion with any symbol that is used...
>
> This issue also effects Cygwin on Windows machines as well....
>
>
> H
>
>
>
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