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

[Chris Boyce <chris boyce berbee com>]

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