GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 703596
Suggestion: support the mime type for *.sav, *.por and *.sps files
Last modified: 2017-09-26 16:27:53 UTC
* note: I did not find a mailing list to create a thread. These files are used by IBM SPSS. However, there is an opensource alternative called GNU PSPP which also handles these types of files. PSPP statistical software is excellent but lacks in design appearance. It would be good at least in GNOME, this file type can be identified and realized that there is an alternative that can handle them.
So what exactly should GNOME "support", technically? Is this about adding mimetypes to a database only?
(In reply to comment #1) > So what exactly should GNOME "support", technically? Is this about adding > mimetypes to a database only? The mimetype already supported, but do not have an associated icon. So I mean if gnome can provide some icons for this.
Hello again. Without being a designer, I created a set of icons for the files I mention above for the PSPP project, based on the guidelines of GNOME. I wonder if the icon basis for data files (*.sav) can be part of gnome-icon-theme, as generic icon for statistical data files (SPSS SAV/ZSAV, Stata DTA, SAS ... etc). Currently there are different icons for different file types supported by PSPP, however, the file icon to SAV can be used generically. Thanks More info: https://github.com/bedf/PSPPire-artwork/tree/master/artwork/mimetypes http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git
While I don't think mimetype icons do us any favor as we are moving away form exposing the filesystem in our UIs, and also the lower res icons are totally illegible by combining too many metaphors into one tiny icon, I am willing to include these in gnome-icon-theme-extras, provided you turn these into a patch.
(In reply to comment #4) > While I don't think mimetype icons do us any favor as we are moving away form > exposing the filesystem in our UIs, and also the lower res icons are totally > illegible by combining too many metaphors into one tiny icon, I am willing to > include these in gnome-icon-theme-extras, provided you turn these into a patch. Thank you. I am aware that the work is not the best, but it is a contribution that I think is necessary. Also following the GNOME perspective, my contribution would only be the image called "application-x-spss-sav" to be used generically in the *.sav, *.por and *.zsav files (and any other statistics data file). Thus, it maintains a single metaphor. Really I'm not a developer, but if I indicate where I can find documentation, I could try to provide a patch. Thanks again, and any indication to improve the design of the icon is welcome.
On a second thought, it is a really really exotic file type so maybe approach GNU PSPP to ship those icons along the app?
(In reply to comment #6) > On a second thought, it is a really really exotic file type so maybe approach > GNU PSPP to ship those icons along the app? Currently the icons are distributed with GNU PSPP. However, I disagree with your comment, as it considered exotic, a file type, depends on the user. For example, in my 8-9 years using "fedora + GNOME", I have not used or seen a "blender file," a "mono language file" or "lotus 1-2-3" however, that file type has an icon for the corresponding mime type. In the case of Blender, I consider specialized software, but many GNOME developers use it, ergo not seem to blender files are exotic. IBM SPSS software is required to psychologists, sociologists, social workers, statisticians, etc... I use it every day. PSPP is not the only software that supports SAV files in GNU/Linux (in the future PSPP can better I|O support) I hope you can consider. Thanks
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I think there are other more relevant task to the design team. You can close this report if they deem necessary. Moreover, a more general idea is to have available a metaphor to represent an icon containing statistical data. Recently Octave has an official UI and support for such applications has improved a lot in recent times, like SPSS, Stata, Octave/Matlab, R, etc. Where I can create a thread to make the proposal? Thank you.
Feel free to close this bug report, It's no longer relevant. Thank you