136360 - RFE: Based-on-filetype file icons in Win32 builds.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 99380

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Naumov]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020314
BuildID:    2002031104

When setup on a Win32 machine, Mozilla associates a single icon picmap to all
filetypes that it is configured to open. This icon can be seen in Windows
Explorer on the left side of a filename. When you open up Windows Explorer and
browse to a directory containing .HTML documents as well as .JPG and .GIF
images, they all have the same blue icon associated with them. This makes it
very hard to distinguish individual file types after Mozilla has been installed.

When Internet Explorer is the default browser, it keeps separated icons for
different filetypes (although not all). It associates a single icon for
htm/html, another for images, another for audio, etc. This makes it much easier
to distinguish different filetypes in a directory with lots of files.

Proposed Solution #1: Create separated icons for each file extension (ie. one
for .html/.htm, one for GIF, ones for JPEG, one for AVI, etc).

Proposed Solution #2: Go the MSIE way and supply icons for each file type, but
not extension (ie. one for htm/html, one for images, one for video, etc).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla.

Actual Results:  A single icon got associated to all files that Mozilla was
configured to open making it hard to distinguish different file types in Windows
Explorer.

I've heard several complaints from Windows users who were quite angered by the
fact that installing Mozilla makes it harder to distinguish files in Windows
Explorer. The final drop was my girlfriend who complained to me on this issue,
so I finally decided to report it.

Comment 1

[Robert Wall]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99380 ***

Comment 2

[Adam Hauner]

v=aha