#6145 HIGH Never A: Sugar chooses inappropriate MIME handlers

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#6145: Sugar chooses inappropriate MIME handlers
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 Reporter:  AlbertCahalan  |       Owner:  marco         
     Type:  defect         |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  high           |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  sugar          |     Version:                
 Keywords:                 |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:                 |   Blockedby:                
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 It's mentioned in the trial-2 release notes, but I couldn't find an
 existing bug, so...

 Etoys claims 30 MIME types. This includes numerous image and sound
 formats. It even includes OpenType fonts, MIDI, and MPEG video. Even if
 Etoys really could handle all of these (it doesn't), starting up a heavy-
 weight Smalltalk interpreter (and worse yet, slowly spamming the journal
 on exit) to view an image file is absurd.

 In bug #6139 Bert claims that Etoys is not asking to be made the default
 handler, but rather merely indicating that the types may be handled. The
 spec at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles seems to support that
 interpretation of the mime_types part of an activity.info file. This is
 thus a Sugar bug, assuming it is agreed that the Activity_bundles
 specification is correct.

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