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FS#1844 - Evolution/OpenOffice MIME problems

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kevin Piche (kpiche) - Friday, 26 November 2004, 12:50 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Friday, 26 November 2004, 13:05 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Evolution can't open *.doc files in OpenOffice. Chased the problem to missing MimeType entries from the *.desktop files. Also the "application/msword" alias in freedesktop.org.xml doesn't work - need a separate msword entry. Also see thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=54370#54370 .
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Closed by  Kevin Piche (kpiche)
Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 16:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in upstream in OpenOffice2.
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Friday, 26 November 2004, 13:07 GMT
This happens because gnome doesn't have code to handle the aliases in shared-mime-info files.

vnd.ms-word.xml already contains:
<alias type="application/msword"/>

As soon as gnome knows how to handle this it should fix itself properly. (could be a evolution bug too, I've seen it in other gnome apps, IIRC).
Comment by Kevin Piche (kpiche) - Saturday, 27 November 2004, 03:25 GMT
True the alias problem seems to be cosmetic only. A possibility could be to switch the places of vnd.ms-word with msword as an interim solution.
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Sunday, 28 November 2004, 01:02 GMT
Yup, this would work for evolution possibly, but it would break other applications. Say your buddy attaches a doc using evolution on a different distro and emails this to you. It would probably show up as vnd.ms-word instead of application/msword. We'll probably just have to wait for gnome/evolution to fix it as the workaround may cause more problems than it's worth.
Comment by Kevin Piche (kpiche) - Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 16:31 GMT
The mime aliases are handled properly now and OpenOffice2 has finally added MimeTypes to their *.desktop files.

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