Appendix 4.A Standard Identifiers

The base theme MUST provide every identifier below (§4.4). Another theme MAY provide any of them. The set is closed for this version; a later version MAY add to it (§4.7).

4.A.1 Last resort #

IdentifierDrawn for
genericAnything no other source gives an icon (§4.5)

4.A.2 Types #

The identifiers the two types every consumer determines yield (§4.6), and the top-level types a consumer is most likely to determine from a name.

IdentifierDrawn for
inode-directoryA directory
application-x-executableA program
applicationA file of any other application/ type
textA file of any text/ type
imageA file of any image/ type
audioA file of any audio/ type
videoA file of any video/ type

4.A.3 Named directories #

The directories a person is most likely to keep, by the names they are most likely to have (§4.5).

IdentifierDrawn for
directory-documentsA directory called Documents
directory-downloadsA directory called Downloads
directory-picturesA directory called Pictures
directory-musicA directory called Music
directory-videosA directory called Videos

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