Hi Steve,
Thanks, this your suggestion worked.
David
>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Auerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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