Re: [Evolution] Problem opening attachments.

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > > 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 am running FC4 as a test system and there it IS possible to open OO of
> an attached Microsoft Word document, so I'll live with the problem on
> FC3 till I switch over to FC4. But it would be nice to know the
> mechanism behind file associations as I haven't been able to find a
> description of how it works.

A lot of this stuff should be in the fd.o specs:
  http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/

Anyway, this is how it works at least with GNOME 2.10 and later, not
sure about 2.8 (which you obviously are running). See more about this
below.


> > > 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?

> > 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.

AFAIK, yes. The Content-Type is set by the sending MUA, which in this
case happens to be a different MIME type than the one Nautilus detects.
So the last option I mentioned is the way to go here: Add the MIME type
application/msword to the OpenOffice .desktop file.

My personal .desktop files live in $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications, which
may or may not yet be supported by GNOME 2.8. This is quite some time
ago and was a moving target back those days, so I don't recall if 2.8
uses this already. I believe it does, though. Those files may be stored
somewhere in your ~/.nautilus dir.

Your system wide .desktop files probably are in /usr/share/applications
or a similar place. Try editing those files if you can't find your
personal ones, and be sure to restart the relevant part of GNOME after
that. No, I don't know for sure if restarting Evo would be sufficient...

HTH

...guenther


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