Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:04:20 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at> Subject: Re: Controlling Evolution MIME helper associations? Message-ID: <20081015170420.DFE1A4500F@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:20:02 CDT." <op.ui2njof69aq2h7@localhost>
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--==_Exmh_1224090260_148P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > 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 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? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1224090260_148P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFI9iKUkn3rs5h7N1ERAnc1AJ9oKTngoWf/2N82ZPp0bVCO4sp8MQCaAudr w7BTfLPqjHtGSJuXwgjNv4U= =CXFF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1224090260_148P--
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