@Peter: I agree that the current situation isn't great because hicolor mimetype icons in fact never get shown. The proper thing to do would probably be to display the custom mimetype icons when the default theme is used and use the generic fallbacks when a custom theme is in use.
Regarding your reductio ad absurdum argument the correct behavior would depend on whether we want to keep style or convey information. If we want to keep the theme consistent the correct thing to do would be to display all files as this icon - this may well be the author's intent. However if we intend to convey information we could use the specific hicolor theme icons. I think this decision would be best left to the theme author, so the solution is to add a flag to the index.theme file, let's call it "InheritsMimeTypes", that would determine whether to use hicolor mime icons if they are more specific. If your theme is reasonably tango-like then you set it to true. If it's completely different like Gartoon Redux or Black&White, you set it to false so the style is consistent. -- Incorrect icons displayed for mimetypes installed in hicolor theme only https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
