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When I mount a my phone, Unity set this icon (or one like it) in its Launcher: /usr/share/icons/Humanity/devices/48/multimedia-player.svg

Nautilus shows this icon (or one like it): /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/devices/multimedia-player-symbolic.svg

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The thing is I'm tired of looking at a silly generic multimedia player icon for my phone. I want to add my own phone icon.

I could perhaps add my own multimedia-player.png and multimedia-player-symbolic.png in perhaps ~/.local/share/icons and hope they get precedence over the system icons.

But I'd rather fix the root of the problem and have my phone detected as a "phone" instead of a "multimedia-player" which seems to me the case.

My questions are:

  1. How do I change the icon for my phone?
  2. Where is this "multimedia-player" device class detected? And where can I specify my own? (I assume some udev usb vendor id configuration rule, but I cannot find any).
  3. Where is the icon associated with device class? (If this is really what's going on)
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  • Look at this answer please: http://askubuntu.com/a/333817/367990 – Byte Commander Feb 09 '15 at 15:46
  • I can't seem to make it work on Ubuntu 14.04. Has this approach been confirmed on 14.04? I'd still like to know where the "multimedia-player" icon is set by default. I can't seem to find any udev rules for it. – Stephan Henningsen Feb 09 '15 at 21:23

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  1. Replace the existing icon files with the icon file of your choice (I have a steam-punk truck for all my USB HDDs (defined in fstab) and a steam-punk Zeppelin for USB sticks. (my ancient phone gets detected as a USB drive, so I didn't bother changing that one neither)

  2. Yes, udev! No don't ask: I didn't bother, I used solution 1 (much less work).

  3. /usr/share/pixmaps and its subdirectories.

You can also have a look here for more advanced options.

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