Evolution, can't use Abiword to view docs.

George Farris farrisg at mala.bc.ca
Tue Oct 12 16:56:22 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

No, the problem isn't with Nautilus, Nautilus works just fine, however,
even though the doc type is now registered to open with Abiword,
Evolution still wants to use OpenOffice.  It's not reading the mime info
properly.


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George Farris   farrisg at mala.bc.ca
Network and Technical Services
Malaspina University-College





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