[wellylug] Evolution and OpenOffice integration (MIME)

[David Antliff]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 jfouhy at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> The tool is called gconftool-2; there is a GUI for it called gconf-editor which
> I actually used.  I can't actually tell you what configuration files it is
> editing, but it may be helpful for you...

Hi John,

Thanks for this. I have actually used gconftool-2 before:

gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command -t string 
'/home/dantliff/bin/openurl %s'

I guessed there might be a similar way to do it with MIME. I'll check out 
the GUI.

As an aside, I tried running 'nautilus --no-desktop' (since I run fluxbox) 
and opening a .doc file with ooffice specified, and it seems to have 
remembered this, and whats more, evolution now offers to open .doc files 
with ooffice. It appeared to create this file:

$ cat /home/dantliff/.local/share/applications/xoowriter.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=xoowriter
MimeType=application/msword;
Exec='/usr/bin/xoowriter'
Type=Application
Terminal=false
NoDisplay=true


I changed Name=OpenOffice for aesthetic reasons and it all seems to be 
working fine now. Evolution even detects changes to the file and updates 
itself on-the-fly :)

Thanks,
David.