From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 15:20:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DCD1065690 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:20:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao107.cox.net (eastrmmtao107.cox.net [68.230.240.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32728FC1C for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:20:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao107.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20081015152001.GVGZ8977.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:20:01 -0400 Received: from localhost ([68.103.35.214]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id T3L01a00W4dCcn0023L0U8; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:20:01 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=K5k7dlNmOFAA:10 a=HXHALYG_HJUA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=NKoVaKvHDHMLhownJu8A:9 a=IyjK0hajSmBiX0QaDX4A:7 a=udfx_zx5IZHmXMUVHeUzjh9FHZYA:4 a=Er2gK3W4G3kA:10 a=PtEFF5GQFKQA:10 a=1IQtyGFH-7MA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:20:02 -0500 To: "Lachlan Michael" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1224078406.2516.11.camel@wombat.lkla.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1224078406.2516.11.camel@wombat.lkla.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.60 (Linux) Cc: Mark Evenson , freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Controlling Evolution MIME helper associations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:20:03 -0000 On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:46:46 -0500, Lachlan Michael 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? Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org