Re: [Evolution] Problem opening attachments.

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

To some extent answering my own message. 

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:02 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> 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 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.

> > 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.
> >
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Regards,
Erik P. Olsen