Projects/Oxygen/namingSpec/mimetypes

Specification compliance of icon names

With MIME types, there is no complete list of icon names in the spec. Therefore, they are divided in categories:

Standard FD.o MIME Types

This is the complete list in the FD.o spec:

 application-x-executable        <- actions/exec
 audio-x-generic                 <- sound
 font-x-generic
 image-x-generic
 package-x-generic
 text-html                       <- html
 text-x-generic                  <- txt
 text-x-generic-template
 text-x-script
 video-x-generic                 <- video
 x-office-address-book
 x-office-calendar
 x-office-document               <- document
                                 Probably, 'wordprocessing' 
                                 would be better for "office".  
 x-office-presentation
 x-office-spreadsheet            <- spreadsheet

These are included in Tango:

 application-certificate
 text-x-preview
 x-office-document-template
 x-office-drawing
 x-office-drawing-template
 x-office-presentation-template
 x-office-spreadsheet-template

It has not yet been determined which Tango icon we will need to use.

Icons for Standard MIME Types

This is the complete list in the FD.o spec Non-regular files:

 inode-blockdevice
 inode-chardevice
 inode-directory                 <- places/folder
 inode-fifo
 inode-mount-point
 inode-socket
 inode-symlink                   Can we use an emblem for this?

Other Non-regular MIME types needed for KDE:

 inode-directory-home            <- places/user-home

Other MIME types conforming to IANA

 text-plain                      <- ascii

Note for IANA conformity, see: [1]