Re: [Evolution] gconf setting for wav files? [solved]



I noticed that Evolution was "announcing" the attachment as a mime-type
"audio/wav", but the .wav entry in gnome-file-types-properties was a
mime-type "audio/x-wav".  For fun, I created a new file type (in
gnome-file-types-properties), but specified the mime-type as "audio/wav"
as it was shown in Evolution.  Added realplay as my custom application,
restarted Evo, and Bingo.  It's now in my drop-down list.

For whatever reason, realplayer is the only player I've found that can
open our company's Cisco Voicemail wav files.  Xmms and other players
throw a fit with them.  So the incentive to get this working was
greater.

If anyone knows how I ended up with this mime-type discrepancy, I'd be
fascinated to hear.

Thanks again.


On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 11:44, Eric Lambart wrote:
Well, I just sent myself a wav file and was able to play it in XMMS from
Evolution, no problem.  Here's (attached) a screenshot of my
gnome-properties.  I made it a jpeg to conserve bandwidth so quality is
low but hopefully you can read it.  Do your settings look like this?

Where it says "Default action" I am able to select Custom and select
another program in "Program to run:".

If you have the same settings as I and still have no luck, I don't know
what to tell you.  I'd suggest trying something other than realplay to
play a wave file though.  Why not XMMS or whatever sound player KDE
uses?

Eric

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 08:04, Chris Boyce wrote:
Thanks... but I tried that (both via the gnome control center and
through gnome-file-types-properties).  I added realplay to the list of
programs associated with .wav files.  In the email, Evolution gives me: 




audio/wav
attachment
(VoiceMessage.wav), "VoiceMessage"




with the only option being to save the file.

If I have the right gnome components installed (and I used red-carpet)
then should this be happening?

thanks... 
PS. This is the only way I can listen to my voicemails, hence the
incentive to get .wav files working :)

Chris

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 18:39, Eric Lambart wrote:
It's not stored in gconf.  Try running the gnome-file-types-properties
application.

Eric

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 09:56, Chris Boyce wrote:
Hi all.  I realize Evolution is a gnome application, but being that it
appears to run so well under KDE as well, could someone tell me - if
possible - which file(s) I need to tweak to allow .wav attachments to be
opened by an external program?  I've tried setting the association in
gnome-control-center and I don't want to go nuts editing gconf files if
it doesn't help.  

Pdf and image attachments have working associations, so is there a gnome
file/rpm/gconf entry that I'm missing for audio/wav?

Using 1.4.6 with connector, KDE 3.2.1, Suse 9.

thanks




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