-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 guenther wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 07:08 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: >> csv attachment shows up only as "View Inline", or "Save to". >> In nautilus, Gnumeric shows up correctly, for Open With. > > Not particularly sure if this is the case here, but similar questions do > come up every now and then. > > The problem is, that we may have differing MIME types here. Nautilus > knows about the MIME type as detected by *your* system. And every app > part of your Desktop knows which MIME types it can handle and defines > this by the .desktop files. Nautilus (and Evolution) does know about > this as well, so both can offer the apps which are capable of dealing > with that data. > > However, we do not necessarily have the same information as Nautilus has > (sniffing the MIME type from the file on disk) when dealing with mail > attachments. The sender can set a MIME type, which is not known by your > system. This is what we have in the attachment case. Saving the > attachment, gnome-vfs will check that file, and may report a different > MIME type to Nautilus than the sender of that mail provided. > > > FWIW, I have come across this mostly WRT to MS Office documents in the > past. > > The solution is, to add the MIME type that the sender used to the list > of MIME types your apps are capable of. Nautilus should be able to do > this sort of magic -- I almost always edit my personal .desktop files > manually. ;-)
Isn't altering ~/.mime.types the Unix Way to associate file types with apps? - -- Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEemJ1S9HxQb37XmcRAl5vAJ4znqQkELvStT4cl/svSlCIw0LZOACg2y2F 5KJB+XAi+t1VUtH13G06gF0= =bV51 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
