No icons & mime-types wont update

So after mainly restoring my borked system im left with 1 problem, i have no icons. Trying to run thunar gives this
Thunar-ERROR **: Failed to load fallback icon from "/usr/share/pixmaps/Thunar/Thunar-fallback-icon.png" (Unrecognised image file format). Check your installation!
aborting...
installing pcmanfm gives this
update-mime-database: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64
Ive tried removing libxml and libz to no avail

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Libreoffice mime-type icons

Hi,
i'm curious to know if i'm the only that have ugly mime-type icons for LibreOffice files (.odt .doc .ods ...)
Before
I like to see the original LibreOffice mime-type icons, so after a lot of research on the web i've found the solution.
Following this http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared … atest.html
The applications mime-type action are stored under /usr/share/mime/packages.
Here you can find /usr/share/mime/packages/libreoffice.xml the LibreOffice mime-type file and if you open it you'll find something like that:
<mime-type type="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text">
<comment>OpenDocument Text</comment>
<glob pattern="*.odt"/>
<magic>
<match type="string" offset="38" value="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text"/>
</magic>
</mime-type>
In order to see the original icon in Nautilus / Dolphin you simply have to add a line of code that call the proper mime-type icon for example:
<icon name="libreoffice-oasis-text"/>
You have to do this for every mime-type type.
The follow example is for "OpenDocument Text"
<mime-type type="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text">
<comment>OpenDocument Text</comment>
<glob pattern="*.odt"/>
<icon name="libreoffice-oasis-text"/>
<magic>
<match type="string" offset="38" value="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text"/>
</magic>
</mime-type>
And after this work you can see something like this in Nautilus / Dolphin
After
If someone if interested i can post the updated libreoffice.xml file.
mod edit: Hello gspe, please read Forum Etiquette: Pasting Pictures and Code. Thanks. --fsckd
Last edited by fsckd (2011-11-07 20:05:21)

After a bit more research i've found the correct solution for the problem.
The problem actually is that the libreoffice mime-type icons follow a wrong naming.
For example if you go in /usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes
libreoffice-oasis-text.png
shoud be
application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.text.png
And so on for all entry in /usr/share/mime/packages/libreoffice.xml

Mime-types icons in java code

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I use a custom developed iView for viewing a list of KM documents.
I now need to add an icon next to each document according to its mime-type.
I want to use the table in System Administration -> System Configuration -> Knowledge Management -> Content Management -> Utilities -> Icons.
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Thanks ahead,
Yoav.

Hi,
try using the mimeHandler service for getting the SRC of image for a resource in KM:
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ResourceFactory.
getInstance().
getServiceFactory().
getService("MimeHandlerService");
String imagePath = mh.get(res).getImagePath();
where 'res' is IResource object of the resource in KM.
Hope this helps.
Romano

XDG standards updated re MIME-type associations + default applications

In April the XDG standards regarding Association between MIME types and applications was updated, and the changes are quite significant. For example, to specify default applications you should now list them in the [Default Applications] section of a mimeapps.list; placing them in the [Added Associations] section is no longer sufficient. Also, mimeapps.list files may now also be located in the $HOME/config ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME) and /etc/xdg ($XDG_CONFIG_DIRS) directories. The file defaults.list is confirmed as deprecated, as well as a mimeapps.list file in $HOME/.local/share/applications ($XDG_DATA_HOME/applications).
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