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Bug 142934

Summary: Eclipse not showing "native" icons for files with native associations
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Michael Neale <michael.neale>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 CC: michael.neale, pombredanne
Version: 3.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Michael Neale CLA 2006-05-22 03:22:56 EDT 
In Windows, file associations determine the icon in explorer.

I swear, in a past version of eclipse the native icon was shown if it wasn't overridden by an editor in the workbench (so .doc files showed a word/open office icon etc). I can only speak for windows from experience.
Comment 1 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-05-23 09:40:52 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4682 ***