Re: [Evolution] Question/Bug in Evolution?

[Steve Auerbach <STEVEN P AUERBACH saic com>]

David

I believe that some of the functionality you need can be set up by
creating a file called abiword.desktop, with the following contents:


[Desktop Entry]
Name=AbiWord Word Processor
GenericName=Word Processor
Comment=AbiWord Word Processor
Categories=GNOME;Application;WordProcessor;Office;
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=abiword
Icon=abiword
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=application/x-abiword;application/msword;application/rtf;text/abiword;text/plain;text/richtext;text/rtf;application/vnd.ms-word

On my Kubuntu system, this file is in /usr/share/applications. I think
it can also be placed in ~/.local/share/applications.

Give this a try. You will have to quit Evolution to make this work.You
may have to log out/log in, restart the X server, or even reboot, to
make this work. Once it works, you should be able to open a file with
the MimeType application/msword from the drop-down Evolution menu.

Let me know if this works. It should, but as I discovered this by
informed trial and error, there is a good chance it won't.

Steve

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:54 -0400, David Ronis wrote:
> I've just started using evolution on a slackware-10.1/freerock
> gnome-current box (currently Evolution-2.4.0) and have encountered a
> problem with word attachments.  Evolution correctly identifies them, but
> doesn't seem to have abiword correctly set up as the correct mime type.
> I've added 
>
>                     application/msword; abiword '%s'
>
> to my .mailcap file and 
>                          application/msword doc
>
> to my .mime.types file, but this didn't help.  Oddly, other attachments 
> seem to work fine (e.g., a MS Excel spreadsheet gave me the option of
> opening it with gnumeric), but with MS word files all I can do is save
> them to disk.
>
> This might simply be a difference in the way gnome handles mime, but if
> so, I need a hint as to what to do.
>
> David
>
>
>
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