Re: [Nautilus-list] Wrong icon for HTML file in WebDAV

[Ian McKellar <yakk-nautilus yakk net au>]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:36:05PM -0400, Abe Fettig wrote:
> I was just testing out webdav in nautilus and noticed something strange.
> When I look at an HTML file on my local drive, it gets displayed with my
> theme's gnome-text-html.png icon.  But when I upload it (via webdav) to
> http://test.webdav.org/dav, it gets displayed with the i-web.png icon,
> which is a pain since i'm using the Ximian South theme and the i-web
> icon is BIG!  If I right-click and Show Properties the file shows up as
> type text/html whether it's on my local drive or the remote webdav
> folder.
> 
> Is this a bug?  Shouldn't files of the same MIME type use the same icon
> whether or not they're local?

No, there was some reason that the sidebar icon isn't only based on mime-type,
but often also uri-scheme. I don't remember the reasons anymore - perhaps it
had to do with image/text previews. Andy? Darin? I think it was one of you
who explained it to me.

Ian