From 6a3251272907242d52031dcbe932d06ee5a12ed2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Kerr <charles@charleskerr.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:38:33 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix: mime-type icons on Windows (#8443) (#8456)

* fix: mime-type icons on Windows

* fixup! fix: mime-type icons on Windows

use file_icon_ as the fallback icon

do not  mark the temp string as translatable

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Co-authored-by: Mike Gelfand <mikedld@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 qt/IconCache.cc | 17 +++--------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qt/IconCache.cc b/qt/IconCache.cc
index 480dcd544..e8f6df926 100644
--- a/qt/IconCache.cc
+++ b/qt/IconCache.cc
@@ -84,21 +84,10 @@ QIcon IconCache::getMimeTypeIcon(QString const& mime_type_name, bool multifile)
 
     if (!multifile)
     {
-        QMimeDatabase const mime_db;
+        static auto const mime_db = QMimeDatabase{};
         auto const type = mime_db.mimeTypeForName(mime_type_name);
-        icon = getThemeIcon(type.iconName());
-
-        if (icon.isNull())
-        {
-            icon = getThemeIcon(type.genericIconName());
-        }
-
-        if (icon.isNull())
-        {
-            icon = file_icon_;
-        }
-
-        return icon;
+        auto const filename = QStringLiteral("filename.%1").arg(type.preferredSuffix());
+        return guessMimeIcon(filename, file_icon_);
     }
 
     auto const mime_icon = getMimeTypeIcon(mime_type_name, false);