[Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

[Philipp Kocher]

Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:50, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> On 12.01.2009, at 18:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I think that John is already trying this.
>>
>> Guess I'm confused then - I thought that's exactly what Philipp had done.
> 
> I think he just changed the mime_types field in the .info file.
> 
>> And I just checked and it does work with Etoys projects. When downloading
>> one it indeed gets an etoys icon (although at a smaller size - why is that?)
> 
> No idea, though I think that the mime database is updated in the etoys
> rpm and not in the bundle, am I right?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu
> 

Thanks Tomeu to lead me to the /home/olpc/.local directory. However, the
mimetypes.xml is not necessary to get the icon in the journal. I just
had to copy the scratch icon file in the activity directory to
"application-x-scratch-project.svg" (also in the scratch activity
dirctory). The Memorize Activity is a good example for using that feature.
Sugar has to be restarted after installing Scratch to show the icon.

John, could you please make the following changes in the next Scratch
version:
- add the line "mime_types = application/x-scratch-project" to the
activity.info file
- copy the scratch icon to "application-x-scratch-project.svg" in the
activity directory

Etoys gets configured by different packages. e.g. the rpm
etoys-3.0.2153-1.noarch is adding the file
/usr/share/mime/packges/etoys.xml and the rpm 
sugar-artwork-0.82.3-1.olpc3 is
adding the file
/usr/share/icons/sugar/scalable/mimetypes/application-x-squake-project.svg.

Regards,
Philipp