[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] EToys Saving Problem

[Gary C Martin]

On 15 Jan 2010, at 15:34, Walter Bender wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> On 15.01.2010, at 15:46, Gerald Ardito wrote:
>>> Bert,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for this.
>>> I was able to find some lost EToys projects using your suggestion.
>>> 
>>> I could use some help using copy-to-journal.
>>> I am getting an error about mimetype. What should I use?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> Gerald
>> 
>> For Etoys projects use "application/x-squeak-project".
>> 
>> Yes, it's maddening that copy-to-journal forces you to type that, when a simple call to gvfs-info (or its pythonesk incantation) would guess correctly most of the time (*).
> 
> Bert,
> 
> Is there a ticket open on this? If not, maybe there should be?

There has been a version of copy-to-journal kicking around the laptop wiki for quite some time (pre 8.2 I think), I was never sure why this improvement never made it into a release. Used to work well for me, but perhaps bit rotted somewhat by now (haven't tested it lately), here's the .py:

	http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/phil/support-scripts/tree/copy-to-journal

Wiki page with the description (basically, use a -g option to guess mime type using the file command:

	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Copy_to_and_from_the_Journal

Regards,
--Gary

> 
> -walter
> 
>> - Bert -
>> 
>> (*)
>> [olpc at xo-0c-f3-0c ~]$ gvfs-info -a standard::content-type /usr/share/etoys/*.pr | tail -1 | sed 's/.* //'
>> 
>> application/x-squeak-project
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