icon for mime-type text/x-python

[walter]

It'd be nice to have a mime-type for python code so that it is easier to find when scanning the Journal.

[eben]

Hmm, right now we have a generic text icon. One option is to add additional icons for more mimetypes, but I wonder if we could instead dynamically create generic text icons by exposing an extension, if there is one, at the bottom of the icon, eg. TXT, RTF, ODT, PY, CSS, etc. Could we dynamically generate the default icons for text in this manner? It would be much more useful to have a generic solution, I'd think. We might also want to expose the extension for objects of type "data" as well.

As an aside, I've always envisioned extra info made available in the secondary palette for an activity in the Journal. We could expose the preview, tags/description, extension/type, size, and/or other details there as well.

[walter]

I am not sure that the secondary palette is the solution here. I want to be able to quickly visually scan through my Journal for python code. I don't know how to do it if the python isn't already associated with Pippy.

I haven't thought about other scenarios for text, but most of them (except CSS) would probably be OK to scan with a generic text-type search.

[eben]

I'm not suggesting that it is a solution; just an auxiliary function...previews, specifically, would be really nice to have. Anyway, the core of my question is whether or not we have the ability to dynamically render text on top of (or into?) the generic mimetype icons in order to expose their extensions.

[tomeu]

Replying to eben:

As an aside, I've always envisioned extra info made available in the secondary palette for an activity in the Journal. We could expose the preview, tags/description, extension/type, size, and/or other details there as well.

+1, I think this would improve usability quite a bit. Entered #292 about it.

[tomeu]

Replying to walter:

I am not sure that the secondary palette is the solution here. I want to be able to quickly visually scan through my Journal for python code. I don't know how to do it if the python isn't already associated with Pippy.

What if we added the mimetype to the set of text that gets indexed for every entry? That way you could type python in the search field and see only entries that are python-related (mostly source code files).

[erikos]

Let's pick this up again in 0.86

[bernie]

Is this still relevant?