Hello, > 1). The Etoys activity does not try to open the file, at all, ever. > EToys takes a long time to start up and shut down and it is really > annoying when I open the file with EToys instead of my own activity.
For for the record, Etoys doesn't take a long time to start up. It is the fastest activity to start up. The shut down time can be optimized in a "lossy" way that we might take after all. (And, if you hold the "stop" button for a second, you get a delayed menu. From there you can say "quit without save".) > 2). My Activity *does* open the file. > 3). The Zip files containing images show up in the Journal with my own > Activity's icon, which looks like a slide projector. > > To accomplish this I have created my Zip files with the extension > ".slides" and I'd like to be able to use the MIME type > "application/slides" for such files. > > I'm also interested in creating a reader program for Gutenberg etexts. > I'd like these files to have their own MIME type too so they don't get > opened by the Write activity by mistake. I was thinking of using a file > suffix of ".book" and a MIME type of "text/book" for these. > > I tried using a mimetypes.xml file in the bundle but that didn't work. > I couldn't find an example of an Activity that used such a file so I'm > not certain I'm doing it correctly. > > I'd appreciate any information on MIME types or on alternative > approaches that would solve problems 1-3. Thanks much, Etoys is probably the good example^^; Looking into the "tree" for Etoys (http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/etoys;a=summary), etoys.xml which will be installed to /usr/share/mime/packages by Makefile(.in) and activity.info(.in) that lists the accepted types. Of course, if you write your slide show in Etoys, that would be a lot faster (and easier for some people)... Hope this helps, -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
