Evolution, can't use Abiword to view docs.

Nathaniel McCallum npmccallum at canonical.com
Tue Oct 12 20:32:29 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 12:46 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> Even though I have Abiword installed and set as the default *.doc viewer
> in GNOME, Evo always wants to use OpenOffice Writer.  I assume this is a
> bug.  I have looked through all the gconf Evolution settings but can't
> find any other place to set this.
> 
> Any comments?

Try right click, open with other aplication.  Then type in abiword.
Abiword should open up with the document.  If it does so successfully,
nautilus will use that as the default from then on.

Nathaniel





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