[Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:16, Eben Eliason <eben at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:07, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12.01.2009, at 17:55, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12.01.2009, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ok, what you just did will tell Sugar that Scratch is able to open
>>>>>>>> files with the mime type 'application/x-scratch-project'. But this
>>>>>>>> will not affect the icon of those files.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a way to assign icons for files other than by saving it in an
>>>>>>> activity?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Currently, only by changing the mime-type.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe I misunderstood then. How is the icon for a mime type such as
>>>>> application/x-scratch-project found then?
>>>>
>>>> We are using the xdg mime database, the mimetypes.xml file contained
>>>> in activities is added to that database. So that's the mechanism
>>>> through which activities can associate icons to mime types.
>>>
>>>
>>> So what would the Scratch activity have to do so files put into the Journal
>>> (maybe by downloading) are displayed using a Scratch icon rather than the
>>> generic document icon?
>>
>> Shipping a mimetypes.xml file inside the bundle as explained here:
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles#Bundle_Structure
>>
>> Sugar will call update-mime-database and will merge that file into the
>> xdg mime database.
>
> What does this merge do with conflicts?  It seems we might need a way
> for the most recent activity which has used a given object to apply
> its own icon for it, which isn't covered by this case.  Would the most
> recently installed activity trump the rest?

Not sure about what we can do regarding this while not having to cook
our own mime info stuff. This is the spec implemented by the tools we
are using:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec

Regards,

Tomeu

> - Eben
>
>
>> I think that John is already trying this.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
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