Re: [Evolution] Evolution and gnome 2.8 MIME

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

should just be able to add audio/wav to the GNOME MIME database (don't
ask me how, I don't change any default GNOME settings ever)

Jeff

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:49 -0600, Chris Boyce wrote:
> Greetings.  Just upgraded to Fedora Core 3 (with gnome 2.8 and Evolution
> 2.02).
>
> Our company's voicemail system mails us .wav files when a voicemail
> comes in.  Unfortunately, they appear to Evolution as a MIME type
> "audio/wav", when the normal MIME type for .wav files in Gnome 2.8
> appears to be "audio/x-wav".  
>
> As a result, when I get a voicemail, Evolution doesn't provide the usual
> list of apps to open it with.  If I send myself a "standard" .wav file,
> Evolution gives me all the same choices that, say, Nautilus would give
> me.
>
> Pre-Gnome 2.8, I could add the alternate MIME type to fix this.  Does
> anyone know how to do this in Gnome 2.8 and have Evo recognize it?  I
> apologize if this is not so much an "Evo" problem as it is a Gnome
> issue, but I only seem to have this .wav MIME-type discrepancy in Evo.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
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