[wellylug] Evolution and OpenOffice integration (MIME)
Leo
pizbit at neko.net.nz
Wed Mar 2 13:50:56 NZDT 2005
David Antliff wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
Perhaps evolution is using gnome-open instead of looking att his file directly?
I know in the case of GShowTV it actually passes the file to gnome-open which
then passes it off to the correct application.
Got a brower set a the default browser for gnome? Run: gnome-open "www.google.com"
*grin*
I'm not sure how to set the association manually outside of nautilus, but
perhaps creating a .desktop file in the format/location you've displayed does
the trick. :)
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