Gentoo's default MIME icon specifications for *.doc and *.pdf are so dull. These types of files' general icons are "x-office-document"(see /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml). So their icons look the same and it's hard to tell them from the icons. After reading [1] and [2] (really tough work). I customize the 'PDF' mimetype icon in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME by by adding a file named 'user-type.xml' in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mime/packages/ (~/.local/share/mime/packages/). The content of the user-type.xml is as follows: <?xml version="1.0"?> <mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'> <mime-type type="application/pdf"> <icon name="x-office-spreadsheet"/> </mime-type> </mime-info> It means that I add the 'icon' property to mime-type 'application/pdf' in my own environment. Other properties about mime-type 'application/pdf' are defined in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml. Then I run 'update-mime' to generate the new XDG database files: generic-icons, globs2, icons, magic and so on. I get application/pdf:x-office-spreadsheet in the file 'icons'. And I think the modification on XDG database is right, but nothing happens to the PDF mime-type icon. I log off and restart Gnome, hoping this would work. As I log in, I see the Gnome splash, with brower(nautilus) and panels repeatingly initialized. I can't enter the desktop. I switch to the console, seeing the log says: localhost nautilus segfault at 0 ip xxxx After that, I delete user-define.xml, and rerun update-mime. Gnome become fine. I do this in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME because I want to make the LEAST modification to the CORE SYSTEM (/usr/share/xxx). The problem seem to be that I CAN NOT CHANGE A MIME-TYPE'S ICON BY ANY WAY !!! Later on, I modify the file '/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml' directly, changing the PDF mime-type's general icon to 'x-office-spreadsheet'. Restart the box. It doesn't work. Little about changing mimetypes' icons can be found. This is really driving me crazy. [Reference] [1] X Desktop Group, Shared MIME-info Database. http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html [2] X Desktop Group, Icon Theme Specification. http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html [3] MIME problem with icon spec. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-April/010366.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a file named 'user-define.xml' to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mime/packages/ (~/.local/share/mime/packages, by default). The content is <?xml version="1.0"?> <mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'> <mime-type type="application/pdf"> <icon name="x-office-spreadsheet"/> </mime-type> </mime-info> 2. Restart Gnome Actual Results: Stopping at the gnome splash. Users can't enter the desktop. Expected Results: Enter the desktop. All the PDF files' icons should be changed to 'x-office-spreadsheet.png'. 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Sorry, Steps to Reproduce should be : 1. Add a file named 'user-define.xml' to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mime/packages/ (~/.local/share/mime/packages, by default). The content is <?xml version="1.0"?> <mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'> <mime-type type="application/pdf"> <icon name="x-office-spreadsheet"/> </mime-type> </mime-info> 2. RUN update-mime 3. Restart Gnome by logging out and logging in.
this works just fine here (although it's gnome 2.26 but I don't think it makes much of a difference). What I did: 1. add you modifications to ~/.local/share/mime/packages/user-extension-fdi.xml since there was this xml lying around. 2. run update-mime-database /home/eva/.local/share/mime/ (which is not the same thing as running just update-mime-database) 3. nautilus -q ; nautilus 4. enjoy my text files showing of with a spreadsheet icon What version of shared-mime-info do you have installed (if what I described is _exactly_ what you did) ?
Thanks for the comments. I run on the Gnome 2.24. Following your steps will reproduce EXACTLY the same bug I mentioned in the report. 1. add you modifications to ~/.local/share/mime/packages/user-extension-fdi.xml, something like: <?xml version="1.0"?> <mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'> <mime-type type="application/pdf"> <icon name="x-office-spreadsheet"/> </mime-type> </mime-info 2. run update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime/ 3. nautilus -q ; nautilus Guess what I get in the terminal ? ** Message: Initializing gksu extension... Segmentation fault Then naultilus fails to start, and all the icons on the desktop disappear... (In reply to comment #2) > this works just fine here (although it's gnome 2.26 but I don't think it makes > much of a difference). What I did: > > 1. add you modifications to ~/.local/share/mime/packages/user-extension-fdi.xml > since there was this xml lying around. > 2. run update-mime-database /home/eva/.local/share/mime/ (which is not the same > thing as running just update-mime-database) > 3. nautilus -q ; nautilus > 4. enjoy my text files showing of with a spreadsheet icon > > What version of shared-mime-info do you have installed (if what I described is > _exactly_ what you did) ? >
Not sure this is going to be much more informative but, could you provide a backtrace of the nautilus crash ? See [1] for details on how to produce a useful backtrace. Also what is your shared-mime-info version ? [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
the shared-mime-info I use is 0.60 $ eix shared-mime-info [I] x11-misc/shared-mime-info Available versions: 0.60 Installed versions: 0.60(06:49:17 AM 07/09/2009) Homepage: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info Description: er, according to [1], producing useful backtrace require to rebuild the world with the new CFLAGS. Maybe I will have to rebuild the world for optimization of performance after the problem is setteled. An alternitave solution, or a more cost-effective solution is to udpdate Gnome to 2.26. But, I fail to build gnome-desktop-2.26 when updating. Maybe I will report another bug report. Anyway, thanks for your help! [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml (In reply to comment #4) > Not sure this is going to be much more informative but, could you provide a > backtrace of the nautilus crash ? See [1] for details on how to produce a > useful backtrace. Also what is your shared-mime-info version ? > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml >
> But, I fail to build gnome-desktop-2.26 when updating. Maybe I will report > another bug report. that should be handled by the migration guide, if not, feel free to open another bug report for that. In the meantime, closing needinfo, do not hesitate to reopen this bug once you have the requested information.
