Does KDE4 support icons for user-added mime-types?

[Kris Moore-3]

Hopefully a quick question :)

On KDE3 it was rather easy to provide a new mime type for a file
extension, such as .pbc, and KDE3 would display the specified icon for
it no problem. However, on KDE4 I'm having trouble doing the same thing.
Here's an example of what we got:

/usr/local/share/mime/packages/PBICreator.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
   <mime-type type="application/PBI Creator00">
          <comment>PBI Creator0 File</comment>
          <comment xml:lang="en">PBI Creator0 File</comment>
          <glob pattern="*.pbc"/>
          <desktop>PBICreator.desktop</desktop>
   </mime-type>
</mime-info>


/usr/local/share/applnk/.hidden/PBICreator.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/Programs/PBICreator4.91/.sbin/PBC
Icon=/Programs/PBICreator4.91/kpackage.png
InitialPreference=1
MimeType=application/PBI Creator00
Name=PBI Creator0


Now, this does indeed work at registering the .pbc extension as opening
with this particular desktop entry, just as it did in KDE3, so we know
it is associating the .pbc extension properly. However, the icon for any
.pbc files never shows up in dolphin or konq, just a big "?" mark
instead. Is this something which is broken in KDE4, or has been changed?
So far I've not been able to find any real docs on it :P

Thanks for the help!

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[James Richard Tyrer]

Kris Moore wrote:

> Hopefully a quick question :)
>
> On KDE3 it was rather easy to provide a new mime type for a file
> extension, such as .pbc, and KDE3 would display the specified icon for
> it no problem. However, on KDE4 I'm having trouble doing the same thing.
> Here's an example of what we got:
>
> /usr/local/share/mime/packages/PBICreator.xml:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
>    <mime-type type="application/PBI Creator00">
>           <comment>PBI Creator0 File</comment>
>           <comment xml:lang="en">PBI Creator0 File</comment>
>           <glob pattern="*.pbc"/>
>           <desktop>PBICreator.desktop</desktop>
>    </mime-type>
> </mime-info>
>
>
> /usr/local/share/applnk/.hidden/PBICreator.desktop:
> [Desktop Entry]
> Exec=/Programs/PBICreator4.91/.sbin/PBC
> Icon=/Programs/PBICreator4.91/kpackage.png
> InitialPreference=1
> MimeType=application/PBI Creator00
> Name=PBI Creator0
>
>
> Now, this does indeed work at registering the .pbc extension as opening
> with this particular desktop entry, just as it did in KDE3, so we know
> it is associating the .pbc extension properly. However, the icon for any
> .pbc files never shows up in dolphin or konq, just a big "?" mark
> instead. Is this something which is broken in KDE4, or has been changed?
> So far I've not been able to find any real docs on it :P
>

All you need to do is give the MIME type icon the proper name.  Which
would be:

        application-PBI Creator00

and put it (or them) in the:

        $KDEDIR/share/icons/<style>/<size>/mimetypes/

directories.

However, I'm not certain if this will work with a " " (blank) in the
MIME type icon's name -- that might not be legal.

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JRT
 
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