[Evolution] A bug and a workaround for Evo not providing an "open" option for attachments
- From: Mark Stosberg <mark summersault com>
- To: evolution-list gnome org
- Subject: [Evolution] A bug and a workaround for Evo not providing an "open" option for attachments
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:01:41 -0400
I'm using Evo 2.8.0. I got a "WAV" attachment, and there was no option
to open it directly, like Thunderbird offered.
This is due to a bug in this version of Evo, which does not follow the
MIME standard that mime-types should be case-insensitive. The attachment
I got had a MIME type of "audio/x-WAV". Evo should have recognized that
this was the same as "audio/x-wav", but it did not.
( For reference:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html
"Matching of media type and subtype is ALWAYS case-insensitive" )
The workaround, at least on Mandriva Linux 2007, was to edit
/usr/share/applications/defaults.list
I found that line that said:
audio/x-wav=totem.desktop
I added another line below it:
audio/x-WAV=totem.desktop
Then (after perhaps a restart of Evo), it offered me the option to open
the wav file with Totem, as I wanted.
Mark
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