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Bug 153781 - Icons are misnamed for MS Office files
Icons are misnamed for MS Office files
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: adwaita-icon-theme
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Rodney Dawes
Jakub Steiner
: 155048 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-09-26 17:19 UTC by David Schroeder
Modified: 2006-07-06 19:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description David Schroeder 2004-09-26 17:19:50 UTC 
In 2.8 the mime system identifies Word Documents as application/vnd.ms-word,
instead of the application/msword that icons exist in the default icon theme (at
least in debian). a simple symlink could fix this.
Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2004-09-27 09:53:55 UTC 
I'd rather rename than symlink, since git should be in sync and not try to be
backward compatible with older releases of the mime system.
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2004-10-11 21:21:22 UTC 
*** Bug 155048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2004-10-11 21:37:31 UTC 
I'm not sure that's a gnome-icon-theme. According to
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/msword,
application/msword is the right type, so shared-mime-info is probably the one to fix
Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2004-10-11 21:47:57 UTC 
I've reported the issue here:
http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1606
Comment 5 Marinus Schraal 2004-10-12 15:56:47 UTC 
I think the real issue here is that gnome-vfs doesn't handle aliases for
mime-types as defined by the spec, this results in no icon being found if the
given mime-type is defined as an alias.

As such this should go to the gnome-vfs maintainers.
Comment 6 Rodney Dawes 2006-07-06 19:00:34 UTC 
I'm marking this as fixed. The generic document type icon is symlinked to the application/msword icon in CVS. If there are issues with MIME type detection they should be reported separately in the appropriate places.