thanks, I figured as much and did so for most of my problem extentions per http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnome/users-guide/filetypes.html but I have always (even under Evo 2.0) have never been able to open .csv files in Excel. (IBM configuration tool output and it is very hard to read in the "view inline". Changes to nautilus does not seem to have any effect on this mime type in evolution. How would this get changed?
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:03 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:06 -0400, Jeremey Wise wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 10:51 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 09:37 -0400, Jeremey Wise wrote: > > > > I have updated my laptop to SuSE Pro 9.3 and am finding many querks > > > > which I would like to see if it is a process issue / change or a bug. > > > > Here are my evolution related issues. > > > > > > > > 1) File associations in my SuSE 9.2 (which I believe was evo 2.0.x) > > > > worked better. For example .rtf (rich text is only associated with > > > > kwrite instead of MSWord under Crossover (which it use to do fine) and I > > > > don't know how to fix this and ohter associations which no longer work. > > > > > > Evolution doesn't touch file associations, they are setup system-wide, > > > Evolution just uses them. So this is a distro problem. > > > > > This must be a KDE vs Gnome/evolution thing. I can open a .csv file in > > konqueror and it opens with excel. I can open a .doc and it opens in > > MSword. ....etc..... I will have to poke around and find if it is some > > kind of nautalus vs konqueror thing. > > GNOME and KDE both have their own mime-type databases, so you'll have to > configure both. > > Jeff > > -- Call if you have any questions, Jeremey Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: (440)-519-6006 Cell: (216)-647-1121 MCSE,CNE,CSE _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
