PDF icon in Thunar

[witek]

PDF icon is the same as for other documents, which is irritating when you have many files in the same directory and different types looks the same.

I found discussion on that topic:

But it seems it's a consious choice from the freedesktop people. From file /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml:

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<generic-icon name="x-office-document"/>

that's from the pdf section. So you can edit that if you want to point to some other type of icon.

I would like to change the icon but don`t know exactly which file to edit (/etc/xfce? /usr/share/?) and change it to what instead of"x-office-document" ?

[gapan]

You should change that file that you're quoting and change that line to point to an icon that is included in your current theme. Run the "Rebuild icon cache" tool when you're done with it.

[schlawi54]

Hi.
You could find good documentation about customized thumbnails.
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar ... umbnailers
http://thunar.xfce.org/documentation/C/ ... hunar.html

Thunar-thumbnailers goody seems to be able to generate PDF icons, besides other useful types.

There should also be /usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer available.

[pevsner]

In /usr/share/mime there's a file "generic-icons".
I edit that to: application/pdf:application-pdf(or your icons name)
Icon name can be found in ~./icons/yourtheme/mimetypes/48 or system /usr/share/icons/your theme/mimetypes/48
Rebuild icon cache as gapan says: -

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for i in ~/.icons/*;do  gtk-update-icon-cache -f $i; done

or

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for i in /usr/share/icons/*;do  gtk-update-icon-cache -f $i; done

http://xfce-look.org/ if you need a nice icon.