Revisiting mime-type associates/icons

[giantclambake]

Note: I have the artistic skills of an echidna ~ my eye for small details still work ;)

I was just reviewing how mime-type icons look (aesthetically) on the linux desktop ~ I did mention this before wrt having to choose 'stock' icons for mime-type associations, in lieu of amiberry supplying its own icon files ... there's an interesting example of this I just noticed...I come away with the following observations....

• these are amiberry specific config.uae files (not FS-UAE or WinUAE config.uae files)
• these files are indeed linked by mime-type detection on this setup, to be direct loaded by amiberry (double-click or 'Open with..' dialog) ~ this works as expected, with amiberry direct loading the config.uae file and starting the emulation immediately.

That said, we don't add any mime-type detection for these file types ourselves ~ the mime-type application/x-wine-extension-uae is added by WINE when installing WinUAE on debian, and I can set that association to open the files with amiberry instead of WinUAE ...that simple.

Thinking out load here, we could claim the mime-type application/x-amiberry-extension-uae ~ it's easy enough to detect amiberry created config.uae files specifically, and in that case provide an icon file for said mime-type, so as to visually identify the config.uae file is associated with amiberry ....instead of the default 'document' icon. All I can see at present, is the document icon with an amiberry superimposed upon it ...ie; 'amiberry document file' =)

The other thing that erks me a little bit, is using the amiberry.icon for the .uss mime-type setup....

All the amiberry icons, are savestate.uss files ....visually nothing says that, just that the files are associated with amiberry.

I wish I had a better icon to target, yeah? ...something that visually said it's a savestate file (associated with amiberry).

All I can see at present, is a simple/subtle change, like a 'reversed' amiberry icon.... ie; swap the red squares' position with the white squares, or taking a leaf out of the whdbooter process, an amiberry icon with different colored squares, just for .uss files?

What are your thoughts 'trifling' spit&polish enhancements like the above?

TIA