evolution

[roland]

Hello everybody,

Like everybody, I receive emails with docs in attachment.
When I click on them, they do not open. 
How can I tell evolution to open with swrite?

Thanks for your help

Roland Brouwers
C.A.T. bvba
Antwerp-Belgium
[e-mail]

[Peter Boy]

Am Dienstag, den 30.08.2005, 16:01 +0200 schrieb brouwers roland lx:
> Like everybody, I receive emails with docs in attachment.
> When I click on them, they do not open. 
> How can I tell evolution to open with swrite?

Evolution uses system settings to decide about the program to open an
attachment, afaik.

Does it work in nautilus? (i.e. clicking on an doc file in nautilus
should open swriter)

Peter

[roland]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:37 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 30.08.2005, 16:01 +0200 schrieb brouwers roland lx:
> > Like everybody, I receive emails with docs in attachment.
> > When I click on them, they do not open. 
> > How can I tell evolution to open with swrite?
>
> Evolution uses system settings to decide about the program to open an
> attachment, afaik.
>
> Does it work in nautilus? (i.e. clicking on an doc file in nautilus
> should open swriter)
>
> Peter

I installed a dutch version of OOo. 
It's OOo_1.9.113_linux_install_nl.sh
It unpacks a list of rpms in a upack_dir
And it installs the package in /opt/openoffice.org1.9.113
I did the changes in Nautilus and it works in it
But when you type swrite or scalc in a shell nothing happens
In evolution as an attachment it opens nothing.
Could this be a problem of $PATH?

Roland Brouwers
C.A.T. bvba
Antwerp-Belgium
[e-mail]

[Peter Boy]

Am Mittwoch, den 31.08.2005, 13:42 +0200 schrieb brouwers roland lx:
> Could this be a problem of $PATH?

Could be, indeed. What is the output of

env  |  grep  PATH

It should contain the dir from which the new OO starts.

There may also be a conflict with the previous install of OO. If you are
using FC3 the start script is

/usr/bin/ooffice

May be you have to adjust it. In FC3 OO comes with a modified version
for a tight integration into gnome and evolution. The start script
in /usr/bin is an important piece of it.

Peter

[roland]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:04 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 31.08.2005, 13:42 +0200 schrieb brouwers roland lx:
> > Could this be a problem of $PATH?
>
> Could be, indeed. What is the output of
>
> env  |  grep  PATH
>
> It should contain the dir from which the new OO starts.
>
> There may also be a conflict with the previous install of OO. If you are
> using FC3 the start script is
>
> /usr/bin/ooffice
>
> May be you have to adjust it. In FC3 OO comes with a modified version
> for a tight integration into gnome and evolution. The start script
> in /usr/bin is an important piece of it.
>
> Peter

There are different possibilities:
- change /usr/bin/ooffice which is removed because of deinstallation of
OOo 1.1.3
- move the programs swrite and scalc to /usr/bin/
- change rpm to install it into /usr/bin (How do you do this)
What would be the most safe and/or obvious way?

Roland

[Oldman]

brouwers roland lx wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Like everybody, I receive emails with docs in attachment.
> When I click on them, they do not open.
> How can I tell evolution to open with swrite?

IIRC you have 2 options on attachments save to disk and open.  If 
open does not work it is because there is no mime type default for the 
file (it may be a foreign type or maybe it had no extension?)
    If the file has an extension - save the file to disk, and then open 
it using the right-click, select properties, select the open-with tab.  
Select the program you want to open the file with.
This type of file will now always be opened with the program you 
specified whether in Nautilus or evolution

If the attachment has no extension, Linux may not be able to figure out 
a mime-type and may not be able to assign a default program.  May be you 
could contact the person sending you these and ask that they use Open 
Office? or some other standard types.

Good Luck

Scott
> Thanks for your help
>
> /Roland Brouwers/
> *C.A.T. bvba*
> Antwerp-Belgium
> [e-mail]_

[Peter Boy]

Am Mittwoch, den 31.08.2005, 14:42 +0200 schrieb brouwers roland lx:
> There are different possibilities:
> change /usr/bin/ooffice which is removed because of deinstallation of
>
> OOo 1.1.3
> move the programs swrite and scalc to /usr/bin/
> change rpm to install it into /usr/bin (How do you do this)
>
> What would be the most safe and/or obvious way?
> From my experiences the mist safe way is to adjust /usr/bin/ooffice. I

could send you my file if you can't reconstruct yours.

Moving swrite / scalc may work, but you start cluttering your file tree.
Not recommended. You should add its current location to the PATH,
instead.

Changing the location: check with rpm -qi  [rpmpackage installed] it is
relocatable. Otherwise you would have to build a new rpm.

Peter

[roland]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 09:19 -0700, oldman wrote:
> brouwers roland lx wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > Like everybody, I receive emails with docs in attachment.
> > When I click on them, they do not open.
> > How can I tell evolution to open with swrite?
> IIRC you have 2 options on attachments save to disk and open.  If 
>
> open does not work it is because there is no mime type default for the 
> file (it may be a foreign type or maybe it had no extension?)
>     If the file has an extension - save the file to disk, and then open 
> it using the right-click, select properties, select the open-with tab.  
> Select the program you want to open the file with.
> This type of file will now always be opened with the program you 
> specified whether in Nautilus or evolution
>
> If the attachment has no extension, Linux may not be able to figure out 
> a mime-type and may not be able to assign a default program.  May be you 
> could contact the person sending you these and ask that they use Open 
> Office? or some other standard types.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Scott

I experienced the following:
If you remove the standard installation of OOo in the package p.e.
K12LTSP there is no way to arrange this problem, even with your
suggestion.
If you reinstall the old version of OOo, i.e. 1.1.3 and leave the
installation of 1.9, everything works well, but you will get in
Nautilius as in evolution a proposition for both. Of course you can
impose your preferred one in nautilius.

Problem stays:
In the menu you will get both versions.

HOW DO I REMOVE ONE OF THEM?
In other words, how do you remove lines from the menu?

Thanks for your help!

[Oldman]

brouwers roland lx wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 09:19 -0700, oldman wrote:
> > brouwers roland lx wrote:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > Like everybody, I receive emails with docs in attachment.
> > > When I click on them, they do not open.
> > > How can I tell evolution to open with swrite?
> >
> > IIRC you have 2 options on attachments save to disk and open.  If 
> > open does not work it is because there is no mime type default for the 
> > file (it may be a foreign type or maybe it had no extension?)
> >    If the file has an extension - save the file to disk, and then open 
> > it using the right-click, select properties, select the open-with tab.  
> > Select the program you want to open the file with.
> > This type of file will now always be opened with the program you 
> > specified whether in Nautilus or evolution
> >
> > If the attachment has no extension, Linux may not be able to figure out 
> > a mime-type and may not be able to assign a default program.  May be you 
> > could contact the person sending you these and ask that they use Open 
> > Office? or some other standard types.
> >
> > Good Luck
> >
> > Scott
>
> I experienced the following:
> If you remove the standard installation of OOo in the package p.e.
> K12LTSP there is no way to arrange this problem, even with your
> suggestion.
> If you reinstall the old version of OOo, i.e. 1.1.3 and leave the
> installation of 1.9, everything works well, but you will get in
> Nautilius as in evolution a proposition for both. Of course you can
> impose your preferred one in nautilius.
>
> Problem stays:
> In the menu you will get both versions.
>
> HOW DO I REMOVE ONE OF THEM?
> In other words, how do you remove lines from the menu?
>
> Thanks for your help!

Nearly all of your menu items is in /usr/share/applications and the 
openoffice.org files are no exception. I have only the 1.9 version and 
my files are openoffice.org-1.9-base.desktop and the rest just replace 
base with writer, calc or whatever
You could delete the appropriate files, but probably you should try to 
add the line NoDisplay=true in the files, which should remove them from 
the menus.  Or you could remove (rm) the .desktop files of course.

Scott