[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Changing mime type in journal details view.

[Manuel Quiñones]

James,

2013/11/25 James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>:
> I'm fine with the change by Christofer.
>
> While it is possible for a learner to change the mime type to
> something that cannot be managed by an activity, the risk is low,
> because detail view requires deliberate action to obtain, and the mime
> type can always be changed back.
>
> If the risk is found to be high, then a warning can be added, or an
> entry at the top of the Gtk.ComboBox called "automatic" which uses the
> mime.get_for_file method.
>
> Going one step further, Sugar could store the original mime type and
> offer that as "original".

Yours is an interesting position.

Sugar is different than other systems in that the mime type is stored
in the metadata of the datastore object.  So having it wrong makes the
object unusable.  But I agree with Daniel and Gonzalo that we should
fix this in the root of the problem, if was not fixed already.

I think that the ticket #2924 is missing steps to reproduce.  If we
can find one reproductible case, then we can reconsider Christofer's
patch.

By the way, thanks Chirstofer for your constant work.

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