Re: [Evolution] Where does Evolution get its mime-type handlers?

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 12:20 -0500, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote:
> I'm running Evolution 2.0.2 under RHEL4, and I used to be able to see a
> list of mime-type handlers when I'd click on the drop-down menu for
> attachments embedded in the evolution message pane.  For example, when a
> Word doc was attached, the drop-down menu would include an option for
> opening with Open Office, when a PDF file was attached, the menu would
> include acroread, and when another email was attached, the menu would
> include a list of text editors to open the attachments with.
>
> Now those options are gone.  I only get "Save as..." as an option for
> attached documents, and "Forward/Reply" as options for attached
> messages.  So I'm guessing somewhere a configuration file got trashed or
> trampled at some point, but I can't seem to figure out where that
> configuration is in order to correct it.  Can anyone here point me in
> the right direction?


I believe gnome-vfs provides the MIME registry.  Evolution calls to it
to learn what applications can open a particular mime-type.

Do you see this same problem in other applications?  Maybe try
reinstalling the gnome-vfs2 package.

Matthew Barnes