Tomeu, I tried using the mimetypes.xml file in the activity directory with the Sugar Emulator in Xubuntu. It ignored it. I then tried packaging up the .xo file with setup.py dist and loading it on my XO. That didn't work either. Today I opened the .xo file with 7-zip and found that setup.py did not put mimetypes.xml in the activity directory into the .xo file. The activity.info file went in and so did my .svg icon. I didn't have to make a MANIFEST entry to get either of those in there. Do I need to do something special to get the mimetypes.xml file put in?
It is possible that the Sugar Emulator is out of date. It is a very congenial development environment compared to the alternatives, so I'd like to stick with it if possible. In a related note, I was able to get my activity working by setting the MIME to application/zip and being careful not to launch Etoys by mistake. However, it doesn't work for larger files (35 megs or so). It seems like that is a problem with the Journal application, not my app, because I cannot copy this file from a USB drive to the Journal either. In both cases log viewer shows nearly identical stack traces saying that the file name is undefined. I had a similar problem trying to open a 38 meg PDF in the Read activity. The Read activity would start up but never finish. I have posted a message on this bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smaller files open just fine, big ones don't. That makes my ViewSlides activity kind of dubious. James Simmons >Ok, so what if your activity registers into the mime registry a new type >like application/x-slide-activity associated to the *.slide glob? That >can be done in the mimetypes.xml file. And then your activity should add >this mime to the activity.info. > >In this way, the journal will recognize these files as that type, and >will open them with you activity. > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel