Do you know where these icons are used? The names alone doesn't say much to me.
Anyway I'll try to guess:

- gnome-fs-executable: this sounds like application-x-executable
- gnome-fs-web: ? is it a desktop file linking a web url? In this case I'd use the  corresponding mimetype of what is linked with the link emblem overlayed.
- gnome-fs-bookmark, gnome-fs-bookmark-missing: no idea what they are for.
- gnome-fs-regular: is it the regular file icon? It shouldn't be used at all everything have a mimetype no need for a generic one, anyway text-x-generic or text-x-generic-review could be used here.

gnome-fs-bookmark seems to be used as the default icon for bookmarks (ie what you create by using Bookmarks>Add Bookmark in a nautilus window, or apparently, also by dragging urls from your browser to the desktop).

gnome-fs-bookmark-missing is used when nautilus thinks the file that a bookmark points to is no longer there.

gnome-fs-web is used in some code that tries to assign icons to  'nautilus links' which seems to be some desktop file variation that nautilus creates for some things. Not really clear to me, would need some input from alex here. And the code looks like it could do with some update, at least for icon names:

‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧type = g_key_file_get_string (key_file, MAIN_GROUP, "Type", NULL);
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧if (g_strcmp0 (type, "Application") == 0) {
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧icon = g_strdup ("gnome-fs-executable");
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧} else if (g_strcmp0 (type, "Link") == 0) {
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧icon = g_strdup ("gnome-dev-symlink");
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧} else if (g_strcmp0 (type, "FSDevice") == 0) {
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧icon = g_strdup ("gnome-dev-harddisk");
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧} else if (g_strcmp0 (type, "Directory") == 0) {
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧icon = g_strdup (NAUTILUS_ICON_FOLDER);
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧} else if (g_strcmp0 (type, "Service") == 0 ||
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧   g_strcmp0 (type, "ServiceType") == 0) {
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧icon = g_strdup ("gnome-fs-web");
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧} else {
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧icon = g_strdup ("gnome-fs-regular");
‣‧‧‧‧‧‧‧}

Thankfully, NAUTILUS_ICON_FOLDER is just "folder"

For the bookmark, we have user-bookmarks. gnome-fs-executable is application-x-executable.

For the case when you drop a URL (gnome-fs-web) I would really expect the icon to be of the target document it is linking to. And ideally it would be a document thumbnail, rather than an icon. The fact it's a link not an actual file would be signified with the emblem-symbolic-link.

When the target is missing, we don't have a generic icon, but there's image-missing which may or may not be appropriate. If we had the thumbnails/target filetype icons in place, I'd suggest to create an emblem-inaccessible to use here.

gnome-fs-regular is another bummer icon. We've been misusing text-x-preview for this which is meant to be used as a base to render a text preview on top of, but apps like Thunar just use it for when the type of a file could not be determined (octet-stream).

Adding link to Fedora bug for reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578528
(you can see the screenshots)

Filed nautilus bug 615509 for this.

(In reply to comment #2)
> gnome-fs-bookmark seems to be used as the default icon for bookmarks (ie what
> you create by using Bookmarks>Add Bookmark in a nautilus window, or apparently,
> also by dragging urls from your browser to the desktop).

We would like to use the mimetype icon + link emblem for these.
I filed a bug against nautilus for this.

Those this bug makes sense still?

Resetting assignee to default to avoid cookie-licking (see bug 744024).

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Thanks!

When using Files to draw icons on the desktop, it will correctly pick the mimetype of the icon and use an emblem over it. Specific icon isn't needed anymore.