[Sugar-devel] mime types when moving files from journal to usb

[Gonzalo Odiard]

You need add a mimetypes.xml file to your activity. look at Physics activity

Gonzalo

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Erik Blankinship <erikb at mediamods.com>wrote:

> My video game runs in both gnome and sugar.  I want kids to be able to move
> saved games back and forth between these platforms with ease.
>
> I have created a mime-type for saved files in my video game:
> application/x-my-cool-game.  Datastore entries' metadata are saved with this
> mime-type.
>
> When a video game saved file is dragged to a usb stick, the mime-type is
> thrown away (replaced with application/octet-stream), while dragging journal
> entries to usb with mime-type application/x-tar (1) keep their mime type (2)
> are given a nice .gtar extension to make their life easier in the world
> outside of sugar.
>
> Can I give the same benefits (keep mime-type, get an extension) to files
> copied from the journal to a usb stick using my own custom mime-type?
>
> The ugly alternative, as I see it, is to make all of my journal entries'
> titles' metadata have extensions added to them at creation -- this will make
> for a messy looking journal.  But at least the files will have the right
> extension  for their life in gnome.
>
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