2. Problem opening attachments. (Erik P. Olsen)
> I receive quite a lot of Microsoft Office documents (".doc" files)
> > mainly because most of my friends use Windows. These documents arrive as
> > attached files and I would prefer if Evolution would allow me to open
> > them with OpenOffice but I only get the option of "save as" when I press
> > RMB. The contents help states in section 2.2.3.1: "... attached word
> > processor files can be opened in OpenOffice.org or another word
> > processor ...". These word processor files are probably not Microsoft
> > word but with proper configuration Evolution ought to be able to let
> > OpenOffice process them.
> >
> > The mentioned Microsoft word files come in as "application/msword". How
> > do I tell Evolution to let OpenOffice process them?
> >
> >
Erik
I had to solve a similar problem, except in my case (since I use
crossover office) I had to get Evolution to open .doc files with
Microsoft Word.
Here is how I solved the problem. I created a file
~/.local/share/applications/winword2.desktop
with the contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=winword
MimeType=application/msword
Exec='/home/spa/cxoffice/bin/winword'
Type=Application
Terminal=false
NoDisplay=true
If you replace the Exec line with the appropriate executable for Open
Office, this should work to allow Evolution to open .doc files with Open
Office. On my distro, the executable is /usr/bin/oowrite.
I believe the mechanism is pretty general, that is, once you figure out
what the Mime Type is for a file type of interest, you just create
a .desktop file of the above form, and then Evolution knows to associate
that Mime type with the appropriate application. A URL which has a list
of Mime types is http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mime-types.shtml
Steve
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