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Bug 230191 - Microsoft Word document attachments don't use the associated mime-type icon
Microsoft Word document attachments don't use the associated mime-type icon
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
unspecified
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-09-11 17:42 UTC by Stephen Browne
Modified: 2013-09-10 14:02 UTC
See Also:
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Description Stephen Browne 2002-09-11 17:42:40 UTC 
application/msword document attachments use the
unknown icon instead gnome-application-msword.png

The .doc is identified correctly (since the text
beside the icon says Microsoft Word document
attachment)

This also happens for .ppt files but seems to work
okay for .xls files.
Comment 1 Gerardo Marin 2002-09-11 17:48:21 UTC 
What Evolution version are you using?
Comment 2 Stephen Browne 2002-09-11 18:01:22 UTC 
oops sorry Im using 1.0.8.
Comment 3 JP Rosevear 2002-09-11 18:51:31 UTC 
*** bug 220780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Gerardo Marin 2002-09-11 18:56:39 UTC 
Ignore duplicate.  False alarm :-)
Comment 5 Larry Ewing 2002-09-11 19:14:10 UTC 
Stephen does your gnome-vfs.keys file have valid icon entry?  The
default keys files doesn't have one associated.
Comment 6 Larry Ewing 2002-09-11 19:19:38 UTC 
ignore me too, it must be one of those days
Comment 7 Dan Winship 2002-09-11 19:22:08 UTC 
Urk. OK, there are two problems

First, as Larry noted, there is no .keys file shipped that
associates word files with that icon.

Second, at some point, the relevant attribute got renamed from
"icon-filename" to "icon_filename", and evolution still uses the
former, so even if it was in gnome-vfs.keys, it wouldn't work,
and you can't fix it with the control center mime types editor
either.

As a kludge, edit /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys and add
   
icon-filename=/usr/share/pixmaps/document-icons/gnome-application-msword.png

to the end of the application/msword section, restart evolution,
and it should work.
Comment 8 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-09-11 19:39:12 UTC 
evolution checks both keys now