Bug 20069 - The mime-type for Microsoft icons is wrong
Summary: The mime-type for Microsoft icons is wrong
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: shared-mime-info
Classification: Unclassified
Component: freedesktop.org.xml (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Assignee: Jonathan Blandford
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Reported: 2009-02-11 11:27 UTC by Magnus Bergman
Modified: 2009-02-21 06:05 UTC (History)
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...and the patch (1020 bytes, patch)
2009-02-11 11:29 UTC, Magnus Bergman
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Description Magnus Bergman 2009-02-11 11:27:21 UTC
For Microsoft icons the real mime-type is image/vnd.microsoft.icon as registered at IANA[1]. And I also think "Microsoft icon" is a better description than "ICO icon" since ICO is just short for icon to begin with and doesn't really give any extra information. Besides that it's not uncommon for other (now forgotten?) icon formats to also use the extension "ico".

Further more it isn't entirely correct to call it a "windows icon" since it's usage is "favicons" for webpages as well as use "within a GUI environment"  according Microsofts registration of the type at IANA.

Also according the registration at IANA the format has more aliases. They are incorrect and even stupid, but apparerntly they are used.

[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/vnd.microsoft.icon
Comment 1 Magnus Bergman 2009-02-11 11:29:28 UTC
Created attachment 22834 [details] [review]
...and the patch
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2009-02-21 06:05:06 UTC
* freedesktop.org.xml.in: Patch from Magnus Bergman to make the
Windows icon match its IANA definition (Closes: #20069)
* tests/list: Fix mime-type for the above


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