David I believe that some of the functionality you need can be set up by creating a file called abiword.desktop, with the following contents:
[Desktop Entry] Name=AbiWord Word Processor GenericName=Word Processor Comment=AbiWord Word Processor Categories=GNOME;Application;WordProcessor;Office; Encoding=UTF-8 Exec=abiword Icon=abiword Terminal=false Type=Application MimeType=application/x-abiword;application/msword;application/rtf;text/abiword;text/plain;text/richtext;text/rtf;application/vnd.ms-word On my Kubuntu system, this file is in /usr/share/applications. I think it can also be placed in ~/.local/share/applications. Give this a try. You will have to quit Evolution to make this work.You may have to log out/log in, restart the X server, or even reboot, to make this work. Once it works, you should be able to open a file with the MimeType application/msword from the drop-down Evolution menu. Let me know if this works. It should, but as I discovered this by informed trial and error, there is a good chance it won't. 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- Steve Auerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
