[ZendTo] Request for help for a new feature

[Greg Marshall]

Font Awesome has a few options (probably about 10)
http://fontawesome.io/icons/ <http://fontawesome.io/icons/>
scroll down to "File Type Icons"

I think it meets every requirement except for maybe number 5... I'm not sure how many makes it worth the bother.

Greg



 

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> On Jan 16, 2018, at 10:56 AM, Jules <Jules at zend.to> wrote:
> 
> A member of this list has suggested a nice little new feature, which 
> should be pretty trivial for me to write.
> 
> On any page that shows the contents of a drop-off, where there is 
> currently a generic "file" icon to the left of each filename, we instead 
> have an icon representing the file type.
> 
> This, at a very simple level, can just be done via the filename 
> extension, simple as that.
> Or it could be done from the MIME type (which we also know), but mapping 
> MIME types to file types and to a suitable icon is harder.
> 
> However we do it, I need a library of filetype icons. And yes, Google 
> will find you zillions of the things. But...
> 1) it needs to be either free or very cheap,
> 2) it needs to be free to redistribute,
> 3) it needs to not break anyone's copyright (so you can't raid artwork 
> from the original app),
> 4) it needs to work at a small display size,
> 5) there need to be enough different icons for it to be worth the 
> bother, and
> 6) it needs to look good.
> 
> Do any of you know of a decent set of filetype icons that fit those 
> requirements?
> I'm struggling to find one.
> 
> Any ideas please?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jules
> 
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