i'm forwarding this note from john maloney (scratch maintainer) to devel. this certainly sounds like a mime types issue, but i'm not sure where or how we'd augment the canonical list.
paul john wrote: > Hi, Paul, Cynthia, and Claudia. > > I got a question from a professor at U. of Wisconsin about how to work > with Scratch projects downloaded from the Scratch website (see below). > > I verified that the problem is that the .sb file gets renamed to be > something in /tmp ending in .bin. I think this happens when you put > the .sb file in the clipboard. In any case, when you drag the file > icon onto Scratch, that is the file name that is reported. > > So my question is: is there a way to tell the browser the files ending > in .sb are Scratch project files so that it doesn't rename them? Is it > something like registering a MIME type? > > Does anyone else have any suggestions for making it easier to get > downloaded Scratch projects to open in Scratch? > > -- John > > > > ----- > My understanding of the problem (now that I'm running Scratch 1.3 > everywhere) is that the XO does not properly name the files it > downloads from the scratch site (i.e., they don't have .sb > extensions), and Scratch refuses to recognize files without that > extension. If I use the Linux terminal program to change the name (or > download them onto a USB from another machine) I can get the Scratch > to open the files. Does this make sense? It is a total pain in the > neck though, because I can't figure out a solution that does not > involve a USB: the only way I can find the Scratch program file from > the Linux terminal is if I use the Journal to copy the file to the USB > (I can't figure out where it lives in the Journal world). > ----- =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] give one laptop, get one laptop --- http://www.amazon.com/xo _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel