Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:20:02 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Lachlan Michael" <lachlan@lkla.org> Cc: Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Controlling Evolution MIME helper associations? Message-ID: <op.ui2njof69aq2h7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1224078406.2516.11.camel@wombat.lkla.org> References: <gd1mqp$6cu$1@ger.gmane.org> <1224078406.2516.11.camel@wombat.lkla.org>
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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? Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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