Archive file icons with type names

Nate Graham pointedstick at zoho.com
Fri Aug 27 17:14:18 BST 2021


Personally I would not object to this.

Nate


On 8/27/21 4:41 AM, Jiří Wolker wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I suggest adding some text that describes file format to mimetype icons 
> for archive files with size 64.
> 
> Few examples: 
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/breeze-icons/uploads/e552bcdd2d9f7fd23a8f266e489f02c8/icons.svg 
> 
> 
> For example, when I have icon of plain tar file, there would be “tar” 
> written in the bottom-center part of icon. This part is currently only 
> filled with solid color.
> 
> I think that such modification would be useful for the user (the icon 
> gives the user enough information about the format) and it would also 
> utilize the empty solid-color area in icons that looks, at least for me, 
> “too empty”. Currently, the only difference between the all archive 
> icons is color and shape of the “zipper”.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Jiří


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