Icons and charactersets

[jpg153]

Hi all,

2 annoying things:
1. All my documents get the icons from the OOO apps. But I would like to have other icons for the PDFs and other non OOO specific formats. Where and how to change?

2. I copied all my files from the former Zenwalk system onto a (FAT32) SD-Card and then back to SalixOS. Most file names containing german "Umlaute" now show up unreadable characters? But I am almost sure I used UTF-8 on both systems. But how to check and correct?

Thanks in advance.

[gapan]

1. What do you mean all your documents? pdf files don't get an OOo icon, they get a pdf icon.
2. The slackware xfce package that is included in the installation iso has a bug with mounting vfat devices with utf8. Upgrade your system with slapt-get -u; slapt-get --upgrade and you'll see that with the updated xfce package you'll have no such problems anymore. From the changelog:

xap/xfce-4.6.1-i486-1gv.txz: Added. This package replaces the Slackware
package. It includes a newer version of exo (0.3.105) that fixes
mounting of vfat usb devices with utf8. Also exo is now compiled with
libnotify support so a notification is displayed when unmounting
removable devices. The eject button on the actual CD drive works
properly now and doesn't throw an error message anymore.

[jpg153]

Hi Gapan,

thanks for speedy answer (as usual ).

No, PDF files have exactly the same icon as a OOO writer document - that is what I dont like as one cannot differ...

I will try and update as you said!

[jpg153]

Gapan,

slapt tells me there is nothing to update/upgrade...

and now?

[gapan]

You're right about the pdf icons. Just checked that. 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. Or install evince which includes a pdf thumbnailer.

What version is the xfce package you're using? Did you update your package information before checking?

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ls /var/log/packages/xfce-4*

If you had written stuff on the sd card with the old xfce, they will not be shown properly as they weren't written properly in the first place. You'll need to write that again.

[jpg153]

Hi Gapan,

I am not sure about the ePDFViewer capabilities, so maybe I will install evince in addition.

Well, since the SD card was my archive from the no longer existing zenwalk...no way to do it again. So I will fix those small failures manually.

I probably had already done an update of the system...
version is

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/var/log/packages/xfce-4.6.1-i486-1gv

Thanks.

[gapan]

Yes, you have the latest one. For fixing the filenames you already have there is a tool that might help you with it: http://freshmeat.net/projects/convmv/
Never used it myself though. Here's a short introductiom: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/58689

[thenktor]

In the past I've used convmv to convert all my files to utf8 filenames. It works very well. There is a package available in our repo.