Icon request for desktop / mime : Qelectrotech

[BipB0p]

Hello artists 🖌️, I have a request for an icon that looks very blurred on my screen when scaling 200%, the edges are rectangular with an appearance that blends with the other icons, Nemo has no icon for .qet files (application/x-qet-project) this make difficult to identify a work file with any other file.

What is Qelectrotech: https://qelectrotech.org/
QElectroTech, or QET in short, is a free software to create industrial complex electric diagrams.
But you can also even do plumbing, geothermal, air-conditioning, layout, hydraulics, pneumatics, domotic,
PID, photovoltaic, swiming pool plumbing, ect...!

I've posted a few images to illustrate the problem, thanks for the hard work provided on the theme and icons. 🫡

[Hokiper]

The icon would be easy to do, but the mimetypes are usually generic and not specifically made for an app's file format.
.blend (Blender) files for example use the "model" mimetype:

But I see potential for adding a "schematics" or "diagram" mimetype, or something of the sort (if the team agrees with it, and if none of the existing mimetypes already fit that format).

[Hokiper]

In fact I think the "model" mimetype kinda fits it already, but I'm not sure.

[BipB0p]

but the mimetypes are usually generic and not specifically made for an app's file format.

Ah, I thought it was done like on Windows!

But I see potential for adding a "schematics" or "diagram" mimetype, or something of the sort (if the team agrees with it, and if none of the existing mimetypes already fit that format).

It would make more sense than a “cube” representing 3D modeling imo, but I'll let you be the judge. 😉

[Hokiper]

Well, I can't be the judge since I'm not part of the team. We have to see what @clefebvre or @mtwebster think.
But I think such a mimetype would be useful, as it could be designed for both engineering/architecture software (such as FreeCAD or QElectroTech) and diagram editors.

[Hokiper]

While we wait, I've made a custom mimetype for you to use on that file format. I won't send it in a pull request, it's just for your personal use (unless the maintainers want to add it regardless).

Download:

qet.zip

Installation instructions:

1. Extract the qet.zip folder, open it and right-click an empty area of the file manager window. Select "Open as Root" and authenticate with your password (if you use one).

2. Copy the usr folder, go to the root folder (click File System), and paste it there. When it asks if you want to merge the folder, select "Apply this action to all files" and click "Merge".
   
   

3. Now navigate to /usr/share/icons/Mint-Y, right click an empty area and select "Open in Terminal".

4. Run the command update-icon-caches ./

5. Now go back to the folder with the files you extracted, right click an empty area and select "Open in Terminal".

6. Run the command xdg-mime install qelectrotech-qet.xml

[BipB0p]

thanks for doing this, all that's missing is the bosses' opinion on the mimetype 😉