Let activity use its own MIME type in ObjectChooser

[alsroot]

At present(for 0.84) activity can use limited set of mime types - sugar.mime.GENERIC_TYPE_*, but many activities use another mimes(like text/plain(only), application/zip, etc)

[alsroot]

just an option - pass hash of custom MIME types to ObjectChooser():
ObjectChooser(what=('My filter', ['text/plain', 'application/zip']))

[bert]

For better flexibility in a future implementation I'd make the parameter an array of filter specs (D-Bus signature 'aa{sv}'):

[
  {
    'name': 'Localized filter name one',
    'icon': 'first-icon-name',
    'mimetypes': ['first/mime-type', 'second/mime-type']
  },
  {
    'name': 'Localized filter name two',
    'icon': 'second-icon-name',
    'mimetypes': ['some/mime-type', 'other/mime-type']
  }
]

That way, additional properties could be passed, and unknown ones ignored, providing a forwards and backwards-compatible API. The API would not need to change if there were additional allowed filter properties.

[tomeu]

Eben, the last proposed design mockups play well with what Bert is proposing?

[tomeu]

For reference:  http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-May/014245.html

[tomeu]

don't see this happening for 0.86, please help

[walter]

No patch. 0.90?

[erikos]

Came up again with the request of adding mime-types to the generic ones in sugar-base to use in the objectchooser filter.

 http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2012-August/039192.html

[erikos]

Related topic for the better mime type support:  http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3826