icons for compressed files

[James Richard Tyrer]

Pol wrote:
> I would like that the icon for compressed files would be only a 
> slight variation of the one for the uncompressed file - e.g. 
> the same icon, but a little squeezed out, thus preserving the 
> graphical information about contents.

Compressed files are a slight variation on the same icon.  They have: 
zip.png added to the MIME type icon for the file name without the 'gz' or 
'bz2' extension.

> Moreover, could file type recognition be based on the unix 'file' command,
> rather than on th file extension?

File recognition is not based ONLY on file extension.  But, yes it doesn't 
always work and could use a little improvement.

--
JRT
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