Controlling Evolution MIME helper associations?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:20:02 -0500
> From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> 
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:46:46 -0500, Lachlan Michael <lachlan at lkla.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:55 +0200, Mark Evenson wrote:
> >> How do I control Evolution's notion of the handler to associate with a
> >> given MIME type?
> >>
> >> With the latest Evolution (2.22.3.1) build from ports, Evolution's
> >> notion of which handler to associate with which MIME type seems very
> >> screwed up when it comes to attachments OpenOffice.org and Microsoft
> >> document formats.  For attachments with "*.doc" and "*.xls", I only get
> >> a "Save As..." option from the associated context menu.  For files with
> >> "*.odt", I get a context menu offering to "Save As..." as well as open
> >> with "OpenOffice-2.3.1", "Archive Manager", or "Wine Windows Program
> >> Loader" which would be ok except for the fact that I have long since
> >> moved to "OpenOffice-3.0.0".
> >>
> >> The file associations in Nautilus are correct (i.e. it knows to
> >> associate "OpenOffice-3.0.0-Calc" with files of type
> >> "application/vnd.ms-excel"), so it seems that something is overriding
> >> Evolution's notion of MIME associations.
> >>
> >> The operating system instance has been continuous upgraded via
> >> 'portupgrade' for about two years running, so things are undoubtably
> >> outside the normal path for upgrades, but I can't really understand
> >> where to begin here.  Any pointers?
> >>
> >> For what it's worth, creating a completely new user accessing the same
> >> mailbox via Evolution shows the same behavior, so this seems to be
> >> something screwed up in the system directories as opposed to the user
> >> directories.
> >>
> >> I did a little reading about 'update-mime-database', but since Nautilus
> >> knows the correct associations but not Evolution, that doesn't seem to
> >> be the correct path.
> >>
> >> Any clues on what to look at?
> >
> > Just a me-too, with exactly the same symptoms with Evolution 2.22.3
> > (work machine).
> >
> > I do get "abiword" for files of type ".doc" and "gnumeric" as helper
> > applications for files of type ".xls", but no "openoffice.org".
> >
> > I even re-installed openoffice.org and Evolution but still had the same
> > problems. Nautilus works fine.
> >
> > On my home machine with Evolution 2.22.1, everything works fine. Not
> > upgrading in a hurry here!
> >
> > Sorry no help but at least confirmation that it may be more generic than
> > a single system screwed up. Just 2 systems screwed up? I guess now is
> > when someone chimes in with a "works for me" ...
> 
> Have you guys follow in /usr/ports/UPDATING yet?

If you refer to running update-mime-database, that does not help. For a
Word document attachment, I still see the choices of "OpenOffice.org 2.3
Writer..., OpenOffice.org 2.3 Writer..., and AbiWord.

I do not and have not had OpenOffice.org 2.3 on my system for quite a
while. (I am really unclear on the double OpenOffice.org entry. I wonder
what '...' would expand to.)

Or did I miss something else in UPDATING?
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