How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?

[Mikus Grinbergs]

Personally, I agree with just about everything John Gilmore said in 
his Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:59:49 -0800 message to Bert Freudenberg.


I frequently ftp materiel to my XO.  Wanted to put one of these into 
the datastore (Journal).  Have picked up the .py scripts posted by 
Phil Bordelon and Reinier Heeres.  But when I tried to use the 
'to-Journal' script, it asked me for the mime-type of the object 
(which I did not know, and could not even guess) - so I gave up.

[Currently the OLPC fallback seems to be to have all accesses made 
through 'Browse', then asking 'Browse' to store the item.  Bypass 
the intermediary ('Browse'), and you've got a whole mess of worms.]


What happened to me brought up visions in my mind of semi-literate 
users being asked to fill out "Catalogue Cards" for materiel _given_ 
to them (Please supply:  Title, Author, Date, Publisher, Edition, 
Category, Index string, Country of Origin, Copyright, Keywords, 
Pertinent remarks, Contact persons, etc., etc., etc., etc.).


mikus