Confused about evolution 2 Mimetype settings....

[Dan Williams]

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