Meaning of SUSE gnome clock faced icon in Nautilus?

[tgdf]

I used wget to download a large number of files off the web just now. Within groups of files that are named 1.htm, 2.htm etc, most of the file icons picture a document and the MIME type is listed, correctly, as html document on the properties page. I've looked and they are all the same type of html doc. They are chapters of a manuscript in html format. However, a few of the same files, showing also as html documents, have a different icon which pictures a clock face showing a time of 3:40 or 8:20. I've seen this icon before but I can't guess it's name/meaning/function.

I thought, perhaps, these were partially downloaded files but that does not seem to be the case.

Does anyone know the meaning of this icon? Please, I can guess myself. If you don't know, don't respond.

[daark.child]

Can you post an image of this icon.

[tgdf]

GGgggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, )(*#$%^_*&!!!!!

As I was trying to take a screen shot of the icon something happened which made me realize what the icon means. It means, "There is a file here and the system is looking at it to see what kind of file it is. As soon as the system has determined the file type, the system will replace this temporary icon with the correct icon. Be with you in a second."

I can't believe it took me 6 months to figure this out but I've never seen the icon change over before. Jeeeeeeezzzzzzzz.

Here's the picture of the icon. 15.htm is of course the file name, not part of the icon.

You know I really, really, really hate it when I spend an hour on something so trivial and obscure as this, then enlist the time and trouble of others, only to realize suddenly just how trivial and obscure the thing really is. I guess life's like that, but sometimes life really seems to suck.

[bigtomrodney]

You can't know everything! The important part is finding out and sharing. Thanks for posting back anyway to update

[tgdf]

BTW, I don't mean to get off topic but thanks to daark.child for asking for the image. Obviously, responding to his request was what solved the problem for me. And it was a relevant question.

My experience (30 yrs of being abused by Intel, Microsoft et al) of computer problems has been that if someone knows the answer, they can tell you the answer right away.

People who ask specific questions like, "Could you post the image?" are being helpful. People who just start with, "Would you post more details about the problem, how do you expect us to ......blah, blah" don't know the answers but they want to look like they know something.

I've even had a moderator on a Linux forum, who obviously didn't know the answer to my question about a command line syntax difference between DOS and Linux, start haranguing me for using DOS.

Community is good, community is necessary. But thanks to you two for using your brains rather than your mouth.

And further on topic, my distro is SUSE11.0. Does everyone see this same icon on SUSE? On other distros?

Is there a site or distro help page which lists icon definitions? I know icons are supposed to be universal language and not need explanation, but this one sure got by me.

[daark.child]

If you are using openSUSE/SUSE with GNOME, then you will see that icon now and again.

[tgdf]

Yes. I have openSUSE w/Gnome. Like Goldilocks, I found it to be like Baby Bear's porridge......juuuuuuuust right. Ubuntu seems (IMHO, of course) immature. Fedora seems overbearing. Debian might be a tad better, but their insistence on Pure opensource leaves some things to be desired.

OpenSUSE seems complete, installs and updates like a charm. And while I find KDE a bit busy and cluttered, Gnome is very minimalist. Help and utilities are easily available but your work stands out by itself.

However, De gustibus, non disputandem est. When it comes to taste, there is no argument.

Thanks again.