Re: [tlug] Small detail - file icons

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Josh,

Thanks for responding.
> 1. Check the permissions on the files coming from VMware player.
> Compare them to locally downloaded files. Any difference?
>   
Yes. Oddly enough, the from-VMWare files seem to more permissive as 
compared to another file that is displaying it's icon correctly. I 
checked two PDF files:
from-VMWare: -rwxr--r--
regular file: -rw-r-----

> 2. Does Nautilus have a "rebuild thumbnail" option?
>   
Hmm... a bit of a search around the GUI, and on Google hasn't turned up 
anything. But, of course that still leaves open the possibility that 
I've simply missed it somewhere.

> 3. What happens when you move a from VMware file to a difference
> location, or rename it?
>   

Unfortunately, this has no effect. With most files, it does. Sometimes 
when I've downloaded a file from the web or something, it will first 
show up as a "bland", non-thumbnail icon. But then if I simply click on 
it to give it focus, the thumbnailer seems to "wake up", and it will 
change to a nice thumbnail icon. Sometimes this will happen when I move 
files around, even just changing their position on the desktop.

But with the from-VMWare icons, this is not the case. Renaming and/or 
moving them doesn't seem to help either.

How odd.

Is it a MIME-type or resource fork issue? These aren't terms I really 
grasp, but I know that back in the day they had relevance when copying 
files back and forth from Windows and Mac.

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Dave M G