[Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

[Bert Freudenberg]

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?

- Bert -