[sugar] [PATCH] fix #6753 Activities should be able to specify "mime_types = */*"

[Martin Dengler]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:11:47PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> What sort of activity can handle */*?

Distribute.  The journal ;).  Possibly others; I don't know.  I'm not
really the best person to justify #6753.

> Can you think of any nasty things that activities might be able to
> do by advertising suppport for '*/*'?

Besides social-engineering/tricking kids into sending their data to
someone maliciously?  I've nowhere near the familiarity as (IMHO) yourself and
others have to the problem space, so don't pretend to be able to opine
on this, and have no use case for it.  Please definitely consider my
patch as a straw man to delay/engender discussion rather than an
educated attempt to solve a current problem.  I figure as others might
have a use case, and you/others have the experience with what works
and what doesn't, I'd provide a possibly useful shortcut to the
minimum # of lines of code that could be changed to satisfy the use
case to save others/you that small amount of time.  If it's an
interesting problem to consider right now, given everything else that
we could be talking about on sugar@ ;).

> Michael
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