Last modified: 2013-03-13 10:01:44 UTC
Created attachment 11162 [details] Icon for unknown file types When MediaWiki displays a file that it cannot identify, the preview image is loaded from skins/common/images/icons/fileicon.png. (See http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/skins/common/images/icons/fileicon.png) This image can cause confusion because it is meant to be an icon but does not look like one. The user may think that the source image is corrupted in some way. I recommend the attached image as a replacement. It looks like a traditional document icon and is less likely to cause confusion. Since it came from the same source as the other MediaWiki icons, there are no licensing issues. (See the pics/crystalsvg/cr128-mime-empty.png file of kdelibs-3.4.0.)
Hm, we'd probably want to redo the other file icons to match this style if we want to go for that. Simpler might be adding the 'folded-down corner' effect to the existing icons, without having to change their aspect ratio.
The attached icon was merely a suggestion. It would be better to alter my proposal than to alter all the others to match. How about taking the existing icon and adding some kind of symbol in the middle? A big question mark perhaps. Then the message it's trying to convey would be a lot clearer.
