Bug 413302

Summary:	Request: Additional icons for fixed document formats
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	Eidur Eidsson <eidurkr>
Component:	Icons	Assignee:	visual-bugs-null
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	andreas_k, kainz.a, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.17.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Eidur Eidsson 2019-10-22 06:35:17 UTC

There is already an icon style for ebooks and other fixed document formats, currently in use for "application-pdf" and "application-epub+zip". These consist of a coloured book graphic with a white logo on top (larger resolutions) and a coloured logo-only (smaller resolutions). This style could be expanded to include some commonly used formats that are currently represented as office documents.

There could also be a generic icon set for formats that do not have their own design yet. This could be a grey book without a logo (larger resolutions) and a grey book logo (smaller resolutons).


Proposed new icons with their own logos and colours:

OpenXPS, "application-oxps"
 - logo: paper aeroplane
 - colour: light blue

DjVu, "image-vnd.djvu+multipage"
 - see bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399425


Formats that could use a generic icon (for now):

Mobipocket, "application-xmobipocket-ebook"

Kindle, "application-vnd.amazon.mobi8-ebook"

ComicBook, "application-vnd.comicbook+zip" "application-vnd.comicbook+rar" "application-x-cb7" "application-x-cbt"

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-10-27 23:08:19 UTC

> There could also be a generic icon set for formats that do not have their own
> design yet.

Interesting idea, but I'm not sure how technically feasible it is, or whether it makes sense to spend our resources doing this vs just adding more icons.

Which file formats are you missing icons for?

Comment 2 Eidur Eidsson 2019-10-30 07:53:00 UTC

There is a precedent for this. For example, "video-x-generic.svg" is a grey filmstrip icon that is used for a number of different video formats. More commonly used video formats reuse the same design but get their own colour. Then there is "application-x-shockwave-flash.svg", which has its own logo on top of the same filmstrip design.

The fixed document formats could follow such a three-tier approach, reducing the amount of work required. Including a special a logo for a given format is entirely optional, which is fortunate because a recognizable logo isn't always available. PDF and EPUB are in tier one already. A select few (like DjVu and OpenXPS) could have their own colour and the rest would be links to a generic one.

Comment 3 andreas_k 2021-11-03 21:21:45 UTC

If you want a new mimetype icon best would be to upload an simple file with the filename of the icon. 

For example image-vnd.djvu+multipage.djv file will be uploaded so I can test that dolphin use the correct filename.