Re: [Evolution] How does evolution choose apps with which to open attachments?

2015-04-14 Thread Emilio Recio 
There's a big caveat to the information you posted. If you have nautilus
installed, and a few other file browsers, they use D-Bus. Gnome will
ignore anything in those desktop files and opt for a dbus session call
for starting particular apps over the freedesktop standard. It took me
two weeks to figure that out. I use KDE and couldn't figure out why
nothing was working after installing some gnome application.

-e

On 04/05/15 16:22, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 16:55 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> Evolution gives me a different set of apps to open PDF attachments for
>> different messages.
>
> This is part of GNOME, built on top of FreeDesktop standards.  To be
> available to GNOME an application publishes and XDG Desktop file; in
> that file it includes its name, category, icon, and the types of files
> it can work with.
>
> For example /usr/lib64/libreoffice/share/xdg/draw.desktop -
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Terminal=false
> Icon=libreoffice-draw
> Type=Application
> Categories=Office;FlowChart;Graphics;2DGraphics;VectorGraphics;X-Red-Hat-Base;X-MandrivaLinux-Office-Drawing;
> Exec=libreoffice --draw %U
> MimeType=application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics-flat-xml;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics-template;application/vnd.sun.xml.draw;application/vnd.sun.xml.draw.template;application/vnd.visio;application/x-wpg;application/vnd.corel-draw;application/vnd.ms-publisher;image/x-freehand;application/clarisworks;
> Name=LibreOffice Draw
>   ...
>
> According to the XDG standard GNOME scans the desktop files and provides
> you the appropriate application list.
>
>> One thing NOT included among the "Other Applications" is acroread,
>
> It possibly [likely?] does not include a desktop file.  You can easily
> create one.
>
>> As I wrote, these lists are different for PDF attachments contained in
>> different emails.  How does evolution generate these lists?
>
> Based off the MIME-type of the attachment.
>
>> Is there any convenient way to change them?
>
> Create .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications/
>

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Re: [Evolution] How does evolution choose apps with which to open attachments?

2015-04-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams 
On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 16:55 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Evolution gives me a different set of apps to open PDF attachments for
> different messages. 

This is part of GNOME, built on top of FreeDesktop standards.  To be
available to GNOME an application publishes and XDG Desktop file; in
that file it includes its name, category, icon, and the types of files
it can work with.

For example /usr/lib64/libreoffice/share/xdg/draw.desktop - 

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=false
Icon=libreoffice-draw
Type=Application
Categories=Office;FlowChart;Graphics;2DGraphics;VectorGraphics;X-Red-Hat-Base;X-MandrivaLinux-Office-Drawing;
Exec=libreoffice --draw %U
MimeType=application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics-flat-xml;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics-template;application/vnd.sun.xml.draw;application/vnd.sun.xml.draw.template;application/vnd.visio;application/x-wpg;application/vnd.corel-draw;application/vnd.ms-publisher;image/x-freehand;application/clarisworks;
Name=LibreOffice Draw
 ...

According to the XDG standard GNOME scans the desktop files and provides
you the appropriate application list.

> One thing NOT included among the "Other Applications" is acroread,

It possibly [likely?] does not include a desktop file.  You can easily
create one.

> As I wrote, these lists are different for PDF attachments contained in
> different emails.  How does evolution generate these lists?

Based off the MIME-type of the attachment.

> Is there any convenient way to change them?

Create .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications/

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Re: [Evolution] How does evolution choose apps with which to open attachments?

2015-04-03 Thread Andre Klapper 
On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 16:55 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Evolution gives me a different set of apps to open PDF attachments for
> different messages.  The strangest one, which I got just lately gives
> me this choice: 
>   * Save As 
>   * Libre Office Write 
>   * Abiword 
>   * Okular 
>   * Calligra Words 
>   * Other Application

Looks like a list of applications that registered on your system as "I
can open files with the MIME type "application/pdf"."

> Other Application gives a very strange list: 
>   * Account Wizarg 
>   * Akregator 
>   * Amarok 
>   * Amarok 
>   * AMZ Downloader 
>   * ... 
>   * Okular <16 times> 
>   * ... 
>   * Yumex Package Installer

Looks like a list of applications that can open files with MIME type
"application/octet-stream" or some other fallback MIME type, if the
sender's application did not manage to set a correct MIME type.

andre
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[Evolution] How does evolution choose apps with which to open attachments?

2015-04-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan 
Evolution gives me a different set of apps to open PDF attachments for
different messages.  The strangest one, which I got just lately gives me
this choice:

  * Save As
  * Libre Office Write
  * Abiword
  * Okular
  * Calligra Words
  * Other Application

Other Application gives a very strange list:

  * Account Wizarg
  * Akregator
  * Amarok
  * Amarok
  * AMZ Downloader
  * ...
  * Okular <16 times>
  * ...
  * Yumex Package Installer

One thing NOT included among the "Other Applications" is acroread, which
is installed on my system, and which is what I wanted.  (It is, of
course, possible to open attachments as desired by saving them and then
opening the files saved.)

As I wrote, these lists are different for PDF attachments contained in
different emails.  How does evolution generate these lists?  Is there
any convenient way to change them?

Thanks - jon

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