Activitiestray download palettes does not allow accepting a file of unrecognised MIME type

[garycmartin]

Journal "send to -> friend" of an item that the receiver does not yet have an activity that supports its MIME type, prevents the remote user from accepting the file transfer (the accept button does nothing when you click). Example: Trying to transfer some application/x-physics-activity physics simulations over to another laptop before you have installed Physics-3.xo. Expectation is that you would receive application/x-physics-activity files to your Journal and then later when you install Physics-3.xo (or some other tool that accepted that MIME type) the files could be started correctly.

[garycmartin]

Spotted this case in both 0.84.x and latest 0.85.x

[garycmartin]

Here's the trace back:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jarabe/frame/activitiestray.py", line 772, in __accept_activate_cb
    prefix=self._sanitize(self.file_transfer.title))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tempfile.py", line 293, in mkstemp
    return _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tempfile.py", line 226, in _mkstemp_inner
    file = _os.path.join(dir, pre + name + suf)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

[garycmartin]

Here's a screenshot, note that the MIME type appears in full if you Sugar doesn't yet have an activity that can deal with it (if you do it just says "physics activity")

[tomeu]

Fixed by  http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/commits/2fa681b8 r+'ed by Aleksey in #sugar

|TestCase|
- From the journal, send a TurtleArt entry to a friend
- From the other laptop accept it
- Check that the entry is transferred

[walter]

Just to be clear, send still only works under a Salut (local), not Gabble (server) connection?

So the test case should probably go:

* Connect to your Sugar neighborhood through a local connect by making sure your Jabber Server preference is not set (blank) on the Network page of the Control Panel
* From the journal, send a TurtleArt entry to a friend (who is also connected locally)
* From the friend's Sugar, accept the transfer
* Check that the entry is transferred by launching it (click on the new entry in the Journal)

[garycmartin]

Replying to walter:

Just to be clear, send still only works under a Salut (local), not Gabble (server) connection?

No. Works for both Salut and Gabble. If it's broken, it's must have broken recently, I haven't tested this in the last week or two.

[walter]

Great. (Just read about it in the 0.86 Release Notes.) Mea culpa.