And I *finally* found the doc! http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q22
Objective: create a new mime definition for goofy "audio/wav" type. Only exception with Fedora (at least) was that the "application" types for .wav files are in /usr/share/mime/audio (not "application") and the packages are defined in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml. So, I created a "wav.xml" mime type in the audio directory, and added an entry for it in freedesktop.org.xml, then ran "update-mime-database /usr/share/mime". For a comment, I'm just calling it "Windows WAV" - I could have been much more impolite - since this mime type only seems to come up when I receive voicemails from our Exchange/Cisco voicemail system. Just another Windoze mime type not playing nice perhaps? All is well now. On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:05 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > 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. > > > > > -- Chris Boyce _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
