[Icon request] Nix

[PassiveLemon]

This isn't an app. This is for the Nix language.

• App Name: Nix
• Icon Name: nix
• Description: The Nix language is designed for conveniently creating and composing derivations.
• Webpage (optional): https://nix.dev/tutorials/first-steps/nix-language
• Original Icon:

[Cyanide-1]

uploading the nix SVG to make it easier on the maintainers:

[SmartFinn]

Is this file type has own mimetype? Please run the following command for the file and paste the output here:

gio info -a standard::icon PATH/to/file

[PassiveLemon]

attributes:
standard::icon: text-plain, text-x-generic, text-plain-symbolic, text-x-generic-symbolic

[SmartFinn]

Seems, there is no own mimetype for the nix files, nor an app. I have checked shared-mime-info and the nix package. I don't see a reason to add the icon that not be used.

Please, let me know if this mimetype is existing.

[DimitrisPa]

@SmartFinn we can use the icon on some default applications that come bundled with NixOS and more specific NixOS manual. It uses the above icon but with the name nix-snowflake. So I think it will be a good choice to have it available as an icon for both current and future applications, such as symlink, distribution logo #1901, etc.

[Cyanide-1]

to add onto this post, there is a project that has created a nix software store gui, which is an application https://github.com/vlinkz/nix-software-center

you could perhaps create an icon for this too?

[Cyanide-1]

appreciated :)

[Aleksanaa]

Could we reopen this, since we now have text/x-nix mimetype? See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/merge_requests/309

[Aleksanaa]

Thanks!