Re: thunderbird (how to set which application to use which file)
El 2011-08-05 a las 21:16 +0200, Matej Kosik escribió:
(resending to the list)
> On 08/05/2011 08:57 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> > On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:00:14 +0200, Matej Kosik wrote:
> >
> >> How can I tell Icedove which application it should use to open *.pdf
> >> files, when they are attached to an e-mail and user decides to open
> >> them?
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > In GNOME, it uses the default for the DE/WM. In my case, that's an Evince
> > task. What's your DE/WM?
>
> This is my parents' computer.
>
> GNOME seems to be configured correctly, because when PDF files are on the desktop, when I click them, they are opened in evince. This is correct.
>
> However, when they to open pdf file attached to an email (theirs MTA is Icedove), I am only asked to determine the directory where they are supposed to be saved, instead of opening them in evince.
>
> I would like to reconfigure Icedove so that PDF files are opened by evince. I just failed to figure out how to do that. Maybe they gave wrong answers in some dialog boxes, when they appeared; I do not know.
That's weird. I get a prompt asking me what to do with a PDF file (open
with default app or save it) and I'm also running GNOME :-?
I would first start by reading Thunderbird's KB article on this issue,
maybe you can find something that helps you with your problem:
Actions for attachment file types
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Actions_for_attachment_file_types
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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