Re: [Evolution] How to edit list of applications to open attachments

[W Van Snyder <van snyder sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 12:21 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 12:50 -0700, W Van Snyder wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 07:40 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > > In any case, it would be helpful to have a clue in the evolution
> > > > guide. The more detailed the clue, the more useful it is.
> > >
> > > But it isn't Evolution that controls that - as it is not Internet
> > > Explorer in Windows which controls what app handles something
> > > downloaded.  That is determine by MIME-type to application
> > > association;
> > > a feature provided by the underlying environment.
> >
> > Exactly that kind of clue is what's missing from the Evolution
> > handbook.
>
> In recent user help versions (not six year old versions), 
> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/default-browser.html
> links to the desktop environment help to explain how to change which
> web browser to open when clicking on links in Evolution.
>
> Anything else should exactly NOT be in the Evolution handbook. 
> Because it should be in desktop environment user docs, not in Evolution
> user docs.

Evolution docs shouldn't say how each desktop environment specifies
these associations.  But it should say "Your desktop environment
specifies these associations."

> Plus I'd expect your distro / sysadmin to set up and/or
> document such underlying stuff anyway...

I'm sure it's there somewhere.  It only took me a week of searching and
about ten e-mail messages to find it.

> andre