GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 601279
use a generic document icon for the djvu mimetype
Last modified: 2010-04-11 02:22:51 UTC
Hello, I'm aware that djvu has a "image/vnd.djvu" mimetype, because it technically can be single images... but as I see it, its "main purpose" is document archival or publishing (such as manuals, books, articles...). DjVu.org defines the format as "a digital document format with advanced compression technology and high performance value". Wikipedia defines it as "[...] designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, and photographs". So while we have an image mimetype, djvu is *generally* considered (and used) as a "(better than) portable document format". In GNOME, the default application that opens this kind of mimetype is Evince (and it works quite well). Would it be possible to change the gnome icon theme so that it actually reflects DjVu's mostly document-oriented nature? Note that I'm not asking for a djvu-specific icon (such as bug #319420), but instead suggesting that we simply use the "x-office-document" icon instead of "image-x-generic". Just like PDF.
As gnome icon theme developers we can do nothing about it the problem lays elsewhere, a solution would be to have a link created by icon naming utils, but it is out of our domain.
If the main purpose is about documents, the mimetype should be changed. Changing it in gnome-icon-theme or the naming utilities would be a work around.
Hm, where should the bug be filed instead, then? (if it's icon-naming-utils, it's not in the gnome bugzilla)