On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 12:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 12:35 -0400, George Reeke wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 12:17 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: > > > Jim McKean wrote: > > > > When I get an attachment with one of the newer MS formats (like *.xlsx), > > > > evolution does not recognize that it can open them with OpenOffice. It > > > > only give me the option to save them or open with text editor. If I > > > > save them, Ubuntu has no problem recognizing that OpenOffice can open > > > > them. But most of the time, I just want to see what's in them, not keep > > > > them in my file system. > > > > > > > > What do I need to do to allow me to click on them to open while in Evo? > > > > > > > > > > use nautilus to associate an application with the filetype > > > > This question keeps getting asked over and over again. I asked it > > myself a couple of years ago. Maybe the developers can take a hint > > that some better documentation would be a good idea. > > Good luck with that .. > > > I will add that I choose not to use nautilus--if I wanted a Windows > > desktop, I would run Windows--so it would really be nice to have > > an alternative way to make these settings. When a new format comes > > along, I have to run nautilus to register it, then log out and in > > again to get rid of nautilus. In my view, nautilus has nothing to > > do with email and it should not be necessary to run it to set up > > one's email preferences. I realize this is a philosophical argument > > with the developers that I will lose, but I wanted to say it anyway. > > The point is that it's not an email preference but a desktop preference. > It's assumed that you will always want to open this type of file with > that specific application, no matter where you're calling it from. > > I don't necessarily agree with this (it's at the very least non-obvious > to the average user) and besides I don't even use Gnome so I'm not > normally running Nautilus anyway. It would make more sense to allow the > user to call this kind of configuration directly from the app (Evo in > this case) even if its effects were global. > > poc
I understand and agree with both of your points--I just didn't happen to think of it as a desktop preference because I mostly work from command lines. So here's the next obvious question: Why can't I set these preferences with the gconf editor (System Tools-> Configuration Editor)?? George Reeke > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
