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demolition	2011-08-04 , 16:05
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Originally Posted by electroaudio

There is a tool called DBus-switchboard that takes care of the open of mimetypes, so it is in the system already

I remeber a program for win3.11 where you got a grid of large pixels where you could paint your own icons ,with a small preview in the real size on the side. That layout would make it quite easy to do icons on the device for those who are interested in painting

Yeah in visual studio there's something very similar. Pain to use without a predefined image as well. I was thinking of something much simpler: Go through list of programme icons and for each (example suggestion only)
- get programme icon
- reduce to 60%
- place on white rectangle
-> -> initial file icon
Then when associating with each file-type
- perhaps modify colour / hue / brightness etc.
- on white space of rectangle write extension name.

This is only a very rough suggestion but think it gives an idea of what I was thinking of. Obviously, the programme icon's not always ideal as a file icon and some software can open lots of different types. Anyway...

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