emblem for pdf created by libreoffice

Question

If I create a test pdf file in a directory, by using something like ls -al > testpdf.pdf the file is shown in Caja 1.4.0 with an understandable emblem that is 'acrobat-like'.

If I create a libreoffice document in Writer and export it to pdf in the same directory, its emblem is a grey 'sheet of text' which makes it very hard to spot.

How can I change the icon/emblem used by pdfs created by libreoffice?

Can I just overwrite the file used somewhere in /usr/shr/icons ? If so, will it be overwritten by the next libreoffice update?

Answer 1

This sounds more like an issue of the file manager not properly recognising the file type - almost as if it used the extension to infer it (which is rather obsolete imho). Does your pdf's name (the one exported from libreoffice) end with .pdf?

/usr/share/icons (basically everything under /usr, /lib*, /etc) is "system" owned and may be overwritten on package updates (with the exception of configuration files which are treated slightly differently).