Re: [Evolution] Question/Bug in Evolution?

[David Ronis <ronis ronispc chem mcgill ca>]

Hi Steve,

Thanks, this your suggestion worked.

David

> > > > > "Steve" == Steve Auerbach <STEVEN P AUERBACH saic com> writes:

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


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

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

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

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

    Steve> Steve

    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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    Steve> Steve Auerbach <steven p auerbach saic com>

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