On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:06 -0500, David Malcolm wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 14:09 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 11:05 -0800, William Hewitt wrote: > > > Where does one set mime types for evolution 2.0...... All my MSWord > > > attachments can only be "Save As...." though I have an OpenOffce > > > desktop entry in /usr/share/applications (it shows up in the main > > > menu)...... Also, evolution doesnt give me any options for adding mime > > > types..... I have done about 20 Fedora 3 installs now and it is the > > > same every time..... > > > > > > Clues, anyone? > > > > William, > > > > It would be _great_ if you could figure out what those documents mime- > > types are. I've built a new redhat-menus package that should have this > > fixed (see #137520), but it will still require a new OOo build after > > that redhat-menus makes it through into rawhide. > > > > But anyway, if you can find out what mime type Evolution _thinks_ those > > files are, then we could make absolutely sure that the OOo desktop file > > lists taht type as "supported". > > Evolution should be determining the mime type for an attachment as > whatever type was set inside the email by the application that was used > to send the email (although it special-cases a few things to deal with > "application/octet-stream" which basically tells you nothing, and as a > workaround for some common buggy email programs). > > To directly see what MIME type is set inside a message: > View->Message Display->Show Email Source > > Look for a line that says "Content-Type"; this list the MIME type of an > attachment. > > If you use Dan's new redhat-menus package and Evolution still has > problems, please file a bug report, stating the MIME type. I just built and pushed redhat-menus-3.7-2.2.fc3 to fc3-updates, but the OOo package needs to be rebuilt for this as well. That should show up tomorrow or Wednesday in fc3-updates. Dan