[Linux] Mimetype problems

[rufiorogue]

Issues

1. These mimetypes have no icons:

   application/octet-stream
   application/x-raw-disk-image
   application/x-ms-dos-executable
   application/x-sharedlib
   application/x-msdownload
   application/x-spss-sav
   application/x-rar
   application/x-rpm
   application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
   application/vnd.debian.binary-package
   application/rtf
   application/mac-binhex40
   

2. Generally there is a lack of consistency among the mimetype icons.
   Some icons have pronounced shadow, others don't. Some icons are square (archive), others are rectangular.

3. The mimetype icons lack a "folded corner" which is an industry standard. I understand that it might be a deliberate design choice, however this makes it really hard to distinguish application icons from mimetype icons.

4. Very few mimetypes have small size icons (<=32px). Icons don't look sharp and are less readable when rendered at small scale.
   
   When there is a small version of the icon, it usually stands out, which is also distracting.
   

Opinions

• application-x-bittorrent icon looks too abstract and makes no sense.
• application-x-executable icon looks out of style (and I hate it)

Thanks and keep up the good work!

[UriHerrera]

These mimetypes have no icons:

Added the tag to the issue.

Generally there is a lack of consistency among the mimetype icons.
Some icons have pronounced shadow, others don't. Some icons are square (archive), others are rectangular.

That's a stylistic choice, and this is not changing. Not all icons have to be the same shape, form, and size to achieve consistency.

The mimetype icons lack a "folded corner" which is an industry standard. I understand that it might be a deliberate design choice, however this makes it really hard to distinguish application icons from mimetype icons.

It was deliberate not to use a folded corner in the mime types; this is also not changing.

Very few mimetypes have small size icons (<=32px). Icons don't look sharp and are less readable when rendered at small scale.

I'm aware. As I mentioned in the README, this isn't complete.

application-x-bittorrent icon looks too abstract and makes no sense.

When you download something through a torrent, you get the file(s) piece by piece. It's a literal representation of that. Anything else like, for example: using a down-facing arrow is doing lazy design work.

application-x-executable icon looks out of style (and I hate it).

It makes sense in the context of the style used in the theme.

Thanks for reporting the missing icons.

[UriHerrera]

Only application/mac-binhex40 and application/x-spss-sav are missing. The rest were added in 6e2aea7

For the former, I'm not sure what it is. I can see that "BinHex, originally short for "binary-to-hexadecimal", is a binary-to-text encoding system that was used on the classic Mac OS for sending binary files through e-mail." But it's not clear to me in the sense that, is it an email message? a binary file?.

For the latter, what I've found is that it's some kind of statistics software and the images that I checked were of a spreadsheet, so it probably makes sense to use a spreadsheet icon.