Re: [Evolution] Problem opening attachments.

["Erik P. Olsen" <erik epo dk>]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 21:47 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > I receive quite a lot of Microsoft Office documents (".doc" files)
> > mainly because most of my friends use Windows. These documents arrive as
> > attached files and I would prefer if Evolution would allow me to open
> > them with OpenOffice but I only get the option of "save as" when I press
> > RMB. The contents help states in section 2.2.3.1: "... attached word
> > processor files can be opened in OpenOffice.org or another word
> > processor ...". These word processor files are probably not Microsoft
> > word but with proper configuration Evolution ought to be able to let
> > OpenOffice process them. 
> > 
> > The mentioned Microsoft word files come in as "application/msword". How
> > do I tell Evolution to let OpenOffice process them?
> > 
> > I run Evolution 2.0.4 on Fedora Core 3.
> 
> Evolution itself does not know about the file types. There are no
> special cases for Evo, it offers in the drop down whatever the GNOME
> Desktop Environment has.
> 
> Those associations today are done by .desktop files. Unfortunately I
> don't recall the exact way GNOME 2.8 uses, but I think it's the same.
> 
> I suppose you can't open the saved .doc files by double clicking it in
> Nautilus too, right? Just add it to the known file types of OpenOffice,
> and Evo should offer OpenOffice to open that attachment. [1]

I have no problem opening the saved .doc file in Nautilus.
> 
> If it still doesn't, you probably need to tweak the relevant .desktop
> file and add application/msword to the MimeType list.

Do you happen to know where the .desktop files are located?
> 
> ...guenther
> 
> 
> [1] Which is done since 2.8 IIRC by right clicking the file,
>     Preferences, then pick the application to open files of that type.

Weird, the saved Microsoft Word Document is of MIME type
"application/vnd.ms-word" and the attached document is
"application/msword". So this could be the reason why clicking the file
opens OO whereas clicking the attachment does not.
> 
> 
-- 
Regards,
Erik P. Olsen