On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:32:48PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:11:47PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > What sort of activity can handle */*? > > Distribute. The journal ;). Possibly others; I don't know. I'm not > really the best person to justify #6753.
Distribute is an excellent example; thanks. > > Can you think of any nasty things that activities might be able to > > do by advertising suppport for '*/*'? > Besides social-engineering/tricking kids into sending their data to > someone maliciously? Well, what would happen if people installed lots of activities supporting '*/*'? * What happens if those are funky hidden activities like Read? * Would our Palettes scroll, or scale, or run off screen, or ...? * Would the Journal be okay if all entries can be opened by, say, ten activities? * Does the Journal/DS's "default activity for this mime-type" selection mechanism function correctly with "*/*", "*", "*/foo", "foo/*", etc. mimetypes? > [other comments] Please keep submitting patches. You're doing a good job. I'm just using your work to try to provoke discussion about how well our designs cope with corner cases. Best, Michael _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar