Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:46:46 +0900 From: Lachlan Michael <lachlan@lkla.org> To: Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Controlling Evolution MIME helper associations? Message-ID: <1224078406.2516.11.camel@wombat.lkla.org> In-Reply-To: <gd1mqp$6cu$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <gd1mqp$6cu$1@ger.gmane.org>
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--=-MjuX8NqjONJCll5TEq9K Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > given MIME type? >=20 > With the latest Evolution (2.22.3.1) build from ports, Evolution's=20 > notion of which handler to associate with which MIME type seems very=20 > screwed up when it comes to attachments OpenOffice.org and Microsoft=20 > document formats. For attachments with "*.doc" and "*.xls", I only get=20 > a "Save As..." option from the associated context menu. For files with=20 > "*.odt", I get a context menu offering to "Save As..." as well as open=20 > with "OpenOffice-2.3.1", "Archive Manager", or "Wine Windows Program=20 > Loader" which would be ok except for the fact that I have long since=20 > moved to "OpenOffice-3.0.0". >=20 > The file associations in Nautilus are correct (i.e. it knows to=20 > associate "OpenOffice-3.0.0-Calc" with files of type=20 > "application/vnd.ms-excel"), so it seems that something is overriding=20 > Evolution's notion of MIME associations. >=20 > The operating system instance has been continuous upgraded via=20 > 'portupgrade' for about two years running, so things are undoubtably=20 > outside the normal path for upgrades, but I can't really understand=20 > where to begin here. Any pointers? >=20 > For what it's worth, creating a completely new user accessing the same=20 > mailbox via Evolution shows the same behavior, so this seems to be=20 > something screwed up in the system directories as opposed to the user=20 > directories. >=20 > I did a little reading about 'update-mime-database', but since Nautilus=20 > knows the correct associations but not Evolution, that doesn't seem to=20 > be the correct path. >=20 > 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" ... --=-MjuX8NqjONJCll5TEq9K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkj19EYACgkQ03lEi7Qb1RibzwCg7WLMRJb3PHIfVYRtLKIKcYOU +psAoPlHZmVYkTUreOQ6hRXx2/MFamZ9 =ZF4W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-MjuX8NqjONJCll5TEq9K--
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