Dear Norm and List, I struggled with this for a long time. It seems that there are .desktop files that contain this information. The system-wide ones you can edit as root are in /usr/share/applications and the local ones (individual to each user) are in $HOME/.local/share/applications. If you google around you can find instructions on what goes in these files--I won't try to repeat it all here--or just follow the examples. You will also find information about a bunch of other kinds of files that keep this configuration information, but they seem to be irrelevant in RHEL 4.4 with evolution 2.0.2 (which is what you and I both have). Turns out there is an automatic way to get the information in that I didn't find out about right away because I don't use nautilus. But if you turn on nautilus, you can do this: Store a file of the type in question on your desktop, right click it, tell nautilus what application to use to open it, then nautilus will write the information in your $HOME/.local/share/applications and evolution will use it. Hope this helps, George Reeke
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 08:39 -0500, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote: > I'm running Evolution 2.0.2 under RHEL4, and I used to be able to see a > list of mime-type handlers when I'd click on the drop-down menu for > attachments embedded in the evolution message pane. For example, when a > Word doc was attached, the drop-down menu would include an option for > opening with Open Office, when a PDF file was attached, the menu would > include acroread, and when another email was attached, the menu would > include a list of text editors to open the attachments with. > > Now those options are gone. I only get "Save as..." as an option for > attached documents, and "Forward/Reply" as options for attached > messages. So I'm guessing somewhere a configuration file got trashed or > trampled at some point, but I can't seem to figure out where that > configuration is. Can anyone here point me in the right direction? > > I'm not currently subscribed to this list, so I'd appreciate being CC'd > on replies. > > Thanks for any pointers. > > -norm > > > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
