Gnome certainly doesn't read mailcap, which isn't sufficiently rich enough for a modern system. It has it's own mailcap and mimetype database system. Umm, try looking around gnome.org/searching for gnome mime type or something on google.
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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- adfa(evolution-2.4:20087): gtkhtml-WARNING **: cannot find icon: 'stock_insert-url' in gnome _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
