RE: Evolution Mime Attachments.....

[Hewitt,William P - JSC]

For Microsoft Word Attachments, the mime type showing up in my Evolution
install is:

application/msword

I just installed the redhat-menus update, "redhat-
menus-3.7-2.2.fc3.noarch.rpm", and now at least MSWord "doc" Mimetypes
are correctly opening in OpenOffice..... Havent tried the others
yet.....

More as I run across it, but thanks for fixing this (still would like to
know where the ".desktop" file exists that controls this....)

Thanks again....

WPH

Evolution Mime Attachments.....

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 15:57 -0800, William Hewitt wrote:
> More as I run across it, but thanks for fixing this (still would like
> to know where the ".desktop" file exists that controls this....)

The files that control what mime-types OOo accepts via double-click or
right-click in Nautilus and in Evolution are:

/usr/share/applications/redhat-word-processor.desktop
/usr/share/applications/redhat-spreadsheet.desktop
/usr/share/applications/redhat-presentations.desktop
/usr/share/applications/redhat-drawing.desktop

There's going to be another redhat-menus package for FC3-updates
tomorrow, and a new build of OOo tomorrow that should fix the remaining
issues with OOo documents and Evolution/nautilus.

Dan

Usage of redhat in filenames (Re: Evolution Mime Attachments.....)

[Jef Spaleta]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:54:02 -0500, Dan Williams  wrote:
> /usr/share/applications/redhat-word-processor.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/redhat-spreadsheet.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/redhat-presentations.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/redhat-drawing.desktop

can i take a second and tangent.
Is there any plans to move away from using redhat-whatever.desktop
and redhat-whatever.png?  I've been told on occasion that redhat-whatever.png
can be problematic for people creating icon themes, and they are not
exactly excited about having to create files that look vendor specific
in order to provide aftermarket icon thems that work on fedora.

We were able to pull redhat out of the names associated with the config tools. 
Is there a plan to follow suit with the .desktop and .png files being used?

-jef

Evolution Mime Attachments.....

[Peter Boy]

Am Montag, den 22.11.2004, 20:54 -0500 schrieb Dan Williams:
> There's going to be another redhat-menus package for FC3-updates
> tomorrow, and a new build of OOo tomorrow that should fix the remaining
> issues with OOo documents and Evolution/nautilus.

Just another question about file types:

If I inspect e.g /usr/share/applications/totem.desktop totem is
registered for mp3 files, but actually isn't able to handle those files
appropriately. Same is true for rhythmbox.desktop. Wouldn't it be
appropriate to remove those file types?

Actually, if I edit those files and remove mp3, the programs still show
up in other applications ("Open with", if I right-click on an mp3-file
icon).

And just a question:

If there are several programs which can handle e.g mp3 files, where can
I specify, which is the default one (and is listed first in its context
menue)?

Thanks
Peter

Evolution Mime Attachments.....

[Ricardo Veguilla]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 09:04 +0100, Peter Boy wrote:
> Am Montag, den 22.11.2004, 20:54 -0500 schrieb Dan Williams:
> > There's going to be another redhat-menus package for FC3-updates
> > tomorrow, and a new build of OOo tomorrow that should fix the remaining
> > issues with OOo documents and Evolution/nautilus.
>
> Just another question about file types:
>
> If I inspect e.g /usr/share/applications/totem.desktop totem is
> registered for mp3 files, but actually isn't able to handle those files
> appropriately. Same is true for rhythmbox.desktop. Wouldn't it be
> appropriate to remove those file types?

In my opinion, no. Technically, these apps can play mp3 files with the
appropriate plugin installed. If totem or rhythmbox  aren't registered
as capable of handling mp3 files, the user may end up thinking that he
needs to install a whole new app just to play mp3s when he only needs to
install the mp3 plugin.
> Actually, if I edit those files and remove mp3, the programs still show
> up in other applications ("Open with", if I right-click on an mp3-file
> icon).

did you run update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications ?
> And just a question:
>
> If there are several programs which can handle e.g mp3 files, where can
> I specify, which is the default one (and is listed first in its context
> menue)?

If you mean system wide defaults (in other words, setting the default
without using "Properties->Open With") ... I don't know.

Regards,

Evolution Mime Attachments.....

[Peter Boy]

Am Dienstag, den 23.11.2004, 04:58 -0400 schrieb Ricardo Veguilla:
> > Actually, if I edit those files and remove mp3, the programs still show
> > up in other applications ("Open with", if I right-click on an mp3-file
> > icon).
>
> did you run update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications ?

No, I missed that. Thanks for information.

Peter