** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-icon-theme On an up-to-date hardy install, all icon themes descending from gnome- icon-theme show up the text-x-generic icon for many filetypes, eg. office documents, compressed archives, ISO images and so on. Examining /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes I found out there are many - gnome-<mimetype>.svg icons that are supposed to show up as icons for the - file types I specified before. Naming them as such, though, seems to - have been rendered inefficient, because when renaming these symlinks to - remove the gnome- prefix and updating the cache using gtk-update-icon- - cache -f, the problem was solved. Also, when I change the icon theme to - a completely independent Mac OS X-like theme I downloaded myself, all - filetypes show the right icons. Using gnome-icon-theme 2.21.4-0ubuntu1. + gnome-mime-<mimetype>.svg icons that are supposed to show up as icons + for the file types I specified before. Naming them as such, though, + seems to have been rendered inefficient, because when renaming these + symlinks to remove the gnome- prefix and updating the cache using gtk- + update-icon-cache -f, the problem was solved. Also, when I change the + icon theme to a completely independent Mac OS X-like theme I downloaded + myself, all filetypes show the right icons. Using gnome-icon-theme + 2.21.4-0ubuntu1.
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-icon-theme On an up-to-date hardy install, all icon themes descending from gnome- icon-theme show up the text-x-generic icon for many filetypes, eg. office documents, compressed archives, ISO images and so on. Examining /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes I found out there are many - gnome-mime-<mimetype>.svg icons that are supposed to show up as icons - for the file types I specified before. Naming them as such, though, - seems to have been rendered inefficient, because when renaming these - symlinks to remove the gnome- prefix and updating the cache using gtk- - update-icon-cache -f, the problem was solved. Also, when I change the - icon theme to a completely independent Mac OS X-like theme I downloaded + gnome-mime-$mimetype.svg icons that are supposed to show up as icons for + the file types I specified before. Naming them as such, though, seems to + have been rendered inefficient, because when renaming these symlinks to + remove the gnome-mime- prefix and updating the cache using gtk-update- + icon-cache -f, the problem was solved. Also, when I change the icon + theme to a completely independent Mac OS X-like theme I downloaded myself, all filetypes show the right icons. Using gnome-icon-theme 2.21.4-0ubuntu1. -- Generic text icon showing up for many mimetypes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191886 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
