[ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:13 +0100, François Degrave wrote:

> I'd rather think this is because Adobe has nothing to do with pdf 
> anymore; I still think that no reference to an app should appear in a 
> file icon if this app is not installed and meant to deal with this kind 
> of files. I truly think that a file icon containing a "Adobe" logo means 
> to the user: if I open this, it will be launched in Adobe Reader.


I agree. However, it shouldn't be about what is installed. I'd say: a
mime-type icon should, or rather may, only include or refer to an
application icon, if that application is the only one that deals with
that file-type (ability to open files in a text-editor or hex-viewer or
similar doesn't count, of course).


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