Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:38:30 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at> Subject: Re: Controlling Evolution MIME helper associations? Message-ID: <op.ui2tygrg9aq2h7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20081015170420.DFE1A4500F@ptavv.es.net> References: <20081015170420.DFE1A4500F@ptavv.es.net>
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:04:20 -0500, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote: >> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:20:02 -0500 >> From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org >> >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:46:46 -0500, Lachlan Michael <lachlan@lkla.org> >> wrote: >> >> > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:55 +0200, Mark Evenson wrote: >> >> How do I control Evolution's notion of the handler to associate with >> a >> >> given MIME type? >> >> >> >> With the latest Evolution (2.22.3.1) build from ports, Evolution's >> >> notion of which handler to associate with which MIME type seems very >> >> screwed up when it comes to attachments OpenOffice.org and Microsoft >> >> document formats. For attachments with "*.doc" and "*.xls", I only >> get >> >> a "Save As..." option from the associated context menu. For files >> with >> >> "*.odt", I get a context menu offering to "Save As..." as well as >> open >> >> with "OpenOffice-2.3.1", "Archive Manager", or "Wine Windows Program >> >> Loader" which would be ok except for the fact that I have long since >> >> moved to "OpenOffice-3.0.0". >> >> >> >> The file associations in Nautilus are correct (i.e. it knows to >> >> associate "OpenOffice-3.0.0-Calc" with files of type >> >> "application/vnd.ms-excel"), so it seems that something is overriding >> >> Evolution's notion of MIME associations. >> >> >> >> The operating system instance has been continuous upgraded via >> >> 'portupgrade' for about two years running, so things are undoubtably >> >> outside the normal path for upgrades, but I can't really understand >> >> where to begin here. Any pointers? >> >> >> >> For what it's worth, creating a completely new user accessing the >> same >> >> mailbox via Evolution shows the same behavior, so this seems to be >> >> something screwed up in the system directories as opposed to the user >> >> directories. >> >> >> >> I did a little reading about 'update-mime-database', but since >> Nautilus >> >> knows the correct associations but not Evolution, that doesn't seem >> to >> >> be the correct path. >> >> >> >> Any clues on what to look at? >> > >> > Just a me-too, with exactly the same symptoms with Evolution 2.22.3 >> > (work machine). >> > >> > I do get "abiword" for files of type ".doc" and "gnumeric" as helper >> > applications for files of type ".xls", but no "openoffice.org". >> > >> > I even re-installed openoffice.org and Evolution but still had the >> same >> > problems. Nautilus works fine. >> > >> > On my home machine with Evolution 2.22.1, everything works fine. Not >> > upgrading in a hurry here! >> > >> > Sorry no help but at least confirmation that it may be more generic >> than >> > a single system screwed up. Just 2 systems screwed up? I guess now is >> > when someone chimes in with a "works for me" ... >> >> Have you guys follow in /usr/ports/UPDATING yet? > > If you refer to running update-mime-database, that does not help. For a Refered on 20080725, so yes run update-mime-database is part of it. If it does not work for you guys then I am not sure. There is nothing mimetype related change in between Evolution 2.22.0 to 2.22.3.1 in ChangeLog, but they might do more changes than what put in ChangeLog. What OpenOffice.org's *.desktop looks like? Does OpenOffice.org installs anything related with mimetype stuff? I don't have OpenOffice.org and I don't use Evolution either, which is why I have no idea and trying to guess. If you downgrade only Evolution to 2.22.1 and does it works again? Cheers, Mezz > Word document attachment, I still see the choices of "OpenOffice.org 2.3 > Writer..., OpenOffice.org 2.3 Writer..., and AbiWord. > > I do not and have not had OpenOffice.org 2.3 on my system for quite a > while. (I am really unclear on the double OpenOffice.org entry. I wonder > what '...' would expand to.) > > Or did I miss something else in UPDATING? -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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