[sugar] [PATCH] fix #6753 Activities should be able to specify "mime_types = */*"

[Martin Dengler]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:31:00PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> Well, what would happen if people installed lots of activities
> supporting '*/*'? 
...
>  * Would our Palettes scroll, or scale, or run off screen, or ...?

I think the UI is probably going to lag behind gracefully handling
this case, not in the least because I just blatted my patch out in 15
minutes without mentioning it to any UI people.  I don't know of many
activities that really need this feature.

The first thing that comes to mind is that there is no way for an
activity to request it be the top of the list given no other hints,
which could be useful.  The second thing that comes to mind is that on
IRC, when discussed ages ago, IIRC, the list of activities that should
be suggested was to be ordered most recently used first.

> Please keep submitting patches. You're doing a good job. I'm just using
> your work to try to provoke discussion about how well our designs cope
> with corner cases.

Perhaps this patch got more attention than it needed, given the
questions you raised.  Besides the one to which I responded, I don't
know the answers.  I suspect that now might not be the optimal time to
answer them.  I'm quite happy for this tiny patch to languish / be
discarded - the advantage of such a small patch is that it costs
little to generate / discard, but if it gets in it's cheap.

> Michael

Martin
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