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

[Art Hunkins]

FWIW, I've experienced no problems simply copying my activities into the Activities directory (from a USB drive). cp -r does just fine.

Art Hunkins
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Erik Blankinship 
  To: Sugar Devel 
  Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:36 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] mime types when moving files from journal to usb





  On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Erik Blankinship <erikb at mediamods.com> wrote:




    On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-reply-to-2011-2 at silbe.org> wrote:

      Excerpts from Erik Blankinship's message of Fri Feb 11 21:08:20 +0100 2011:


      > I noticed there were two svg icons in the physics activity directory:
      >  application-x-physics-project.svg and activity-physics.svg.
      >
      > Is there now a way to assign an icon to the files generated/used by my
      > activity based on their extension type?


      You already discovered that way. If you ship your icons as
      activity/<primary_type>-<subtype>.svg Sugar will automatically install
      them [1].




    Thank you for your help as I try to get this to work.


    I must be doing something wrong with mimetypes.xml.  Here is a very small activity that let's you click a button to save your game state.
    https://github.com/jedierikb/supes.activity


    Things broken with this activity:
    (1) The icon application-x-supes-saved.svg is not used in the journal for saved game files.
    (2) Activity instance files dragged to usb are not given the extension *.superduper
    (3) Saved game files dragged to usb are not given the extension *.superduper_saved


    [note: trying this on olpc 10.1.3, sugar 84, but would like it to work with sugar 84+]




  Got this working with the help of alsroot on #sugar (thx!).  Here are some notes for future developers and documenters:


  You cannot just copy your activity into the ~/Activities directory. You have to install it as a .xo bundle or using 'setup.py install' (note that the latter is tricky as the command might get your paths messed up).  This installation step will create a file --> ~/.local/share/mime/packages/<your-bundle_id>.xml




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