Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-16 Thread Art Alexion
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 17:30 -0500, Carpet Nailz wrote: > I don't think it's the solution, though That's too bad. I had the same problem about a year ago, and that was the solution for me. ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http:

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-16 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 10:21 +, Pete Biggs wrote: > The message mime structure is constructed by the application that > creates the message - it is at that point that the relationship between > the attachment type and "Content-type:" header is determined. Clearly > in your case the originating m

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-16 Thread Carpet Nailz
Thanks to all. I think collectively you've given me good clarification of something I was mis-understanding. C.Nailz On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 12:17 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 10:49 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > The email I'm focusing on included this statement in

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-16 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 10:49 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > The email I'm focusing on included this statement in the message > source: > > "This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not > > understand this format, some or all of this message may not be > legible." > > Why

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 22:30 -0500, Carpet Nailz wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:23 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 17:30 -0500, Carpet Nailz wrote: > > > I don't think it's the solution, though. In the case of the email with > > > two pdfs attached, they both are type=

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-16 Thread Pete Biggs
The critical bits are: > Content-type: application/pdf; name="knutsonetal_NeuralPredictors.pdf"; and > Content-type: application/octet-stream; name="application of real-time > fMRI.pdf" You can see that the two attachments have different content types - it's this that determines wh

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-15 Thread Akhil Laddha
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 08:28 -0500, Carpet Nailz wrote: > I see lots of posts about similar problems, but there doesn't seem to > be > a solution that I've found. > > I'm running Evo 2.24.1.1, which is the latest version for openSuse > 11.1. > When I get a pdf attachment, I often do not get the o

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-15 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:23 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 17:30 -0500, Carpet Nailz wrote: > > I don't think it's the solution, though. In the case of the email with > > two pdfs attached, they both are type=application/pdf (according to > > the > > properties of the fi

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 17:30 -0500, Carpet Nailz wrote: > I don't think it's the solution, though. In the case of the email with > two pdfs attached, they both are type=application/pdf (according to > the > properties of the files once I save them to the desktop), yet one (in > the email) give me as

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-15 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I don't think it's the solution, though. In the case of the email with > two pdfs attached, they both are type=application/pdf (according to the > properties of the files once I save them to the desktop), yet one (in > the email) give me as options to open Evince, Acrobat, OpenOffice > writer

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-15 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 16:19 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > On 12/15/2009 Carpet Nailz wrote: > > I see lots of posts about similar problems, but there doesn't seem to > > be > > a solution that I've found. > > > > I'm running Evo 2.24.1.1, which is the latest version for openSuse > > 11.1. > > W

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-15 Thread Art Alexion
On 12/15/2009 Carpet Nailz wrote: > I see lots of posts about similar problems, but there doesn't seem to > be > a solution that I've found. > > I'm running Evo 2.24.1.1, which is the latest version for openSuse > 11.1. > When I get a pdf attachment, I often do not get the option to open the

Re: [Evolution] opening PDF attachments

2008-06-09 Thread Martin
In my case evince is to blame. It doesn't start: missing libpoppler-glib.so.2! I couldn't emerge that libpoppler-glib.so.2 so I tried to point the 'document viewer' to an other application like kpdf or so. In vain!! Double click in Konqueror works because Konqueror uses kpdf, xpdf document viewer

Re: [Evolution] opening PDF attachments

2008-06-09 Thread Art Alexion
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 09:46 -0400, Eduardo Spremolla wrote: > Evo use the Nautilus associations, so if it works on Nautilus and not > in > Evo, you are in big truble .. :-( I started out with that assumption. I need help fixing that trouble. -- Art Alexion Resources for Human Development,

Re: [Evolution] opening PDF attachments

2008-06-09 Thread Eduardo Spremolla
Evo use the Nautilus associations, so if it works on Nautilus and not in Evo, you are in big truble .. :-( LALO On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 09:15 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > In a sense, that illustrates my problem. Nautilus *is* properly > associated. It seems only Evo, doesn't know what to do w

Re: [Evolution] opening PDF attachments

2008-06-09 Thread Art Alexion
In a sense, that illustrates my problem. Nautilus *is* properly associated. It seems only Evo, doesn't know what to do with it. On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 15:21 -0400, Eduardo Spremolla wrote: > You need to open Nautilis ( if you don't have it, as I do coz I use KDE, > install it :-( ) > Then over

Re: [Evolution] opening PDF attachments

2008-06-06 Thread Eduardo Spremolla
You need to open Nautilis ( if you don't have it, as I do coz I use KDE, install it :-( ) Then over a pdf file do right clik and select properties. There is an icon for the actions to do with that type an let you select the applications for it. I have to do the same for .doc files on Fedora 9. Can

Re: [Evolution] opening PDF attachments

2008-06-04 Thread Art Alexion
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 12:35 -0400, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > and/or > > > 2) use nautilus to associate evince/acroreader/appOfChoice with the > > > file type. > > > > Seems to already be associated when I right click or double click the > > file. This seems to only be affecting Evo. > > > > I tri

Re: [Evolution] opening PDF attachments

2008-06-04 Thread Pete Biggs
> > and/or > > 2) use nautilus to associate evince/acroreader/appOfChoice with the > > file type. > > Seems to already be associated when I right click or double click the > file. This seems to only be affecting Evo. > > I tried adding a mimetype for .PDF as well as .pdf, but that didn't make

Re: [Evolution] opening PDF attachments

2008-06-04 Thread Art Alexion
Thanks, Reid, but... On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 12:14 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 09:57 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > > Evo stopped giving me the option to open PDFs without first saving them. > > > > I must confess that I know much less about Gnome than KDE, and less > > about S

Re: [Evolution] opening PDF attachments

2008-06-04 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 09:57 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > Evo stopped giving me the option to open PDFs without first saving them. > > I must confess that I know much less about Gnome than KDE, and less > about Suse and RPM than Ubuntu/Debian and DEB. > > Setup is: > Distro = SLED 10.1 > Gnome vers