Re: PPS and thunderbird
Sébastien Morand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using thunderbird to read my mail and I'm not able to open directly the attachments .pps. Actually I get a lot of file like this for my work, and it's quite boring to have to save them in a directory and then read them with openoffice. When I try to read them zith tunderbird, the mime type is not recognized, this is an unknown type and the application proposed is mplayer (don't ask why...). Then i could choose the right application and open it, but the button remember the choice is not available, so I have to choose manually the program evertytime, this is also quite boring. So my questions are: Why pps file are not recognized as powerpoint file? Why am I not able to keep remember the choice to open .pps file with openoffice? I don't have a recent copy of Thunderbird at hand to check with, but I remember Thunderbird having a configuration screen for Attachments which (among other things) let you configure an action for different file types. It probably depends on MIME types rather than file extensions, though, so if you are getting these .pps files with the wrong MIME type, you have a different problem. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPS and thunderbird
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Sébastien Morand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using thunderbird to read my mail and I'm not able to open directly the attachments .pps. Actually I get a lot of file like this for my work, and it's quite boring to have to save them in a directory and then read them with openoffice. When I try to read them zith tunderbird, the mime type is not recognized, this is an unknown type and the application proposed is mplayer (don't ask why...). Then i could choose the right application and open it, but the button remember the choice is not available, so I have to choose manually the program evertytime, this is also quite boring. So my questions are: Why pps file are not recognized as powerpoint file? Why am I not able to keep remember the choice to open .pps file with openoffice? I don't have a recent copy of Thunderbird at hand to check with, but I remember Thunderbird having a configuration screen for Attachments which (among other things) let you configure an action for different file types. It probably depends on MIME types rather than file extensions, though, so if you are getting these .pps files with the wrong MIME type, you have a different problem. In Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Edit/Preferences/Attachments/View Edit Actions to see a list of filetypes. But until you download a file of a particular type it won't appear in the list. I think when you download a filetype for the first time you get a dialogue box asking what to do and if this action should be used in future. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPS and thunderbird
Hi, I'm using thunderbird to read my mail and I'm not able to open directly the attachments .pps. Actually I get a lot of file like this for my work, and it's quite boring to have to save them in a directory and then read them with openoffice. When I try to read them zith tunderbird, the mime type is not recognized, this is an unknown type and the application proposed is mplayer (don't ask why...). Then i could choose the right application and open it, but the button remember the choice is not available, so I have to choose manually the program evertytime, this is also quite boring. So my questions are: Why pps file are not recognized as powerpoint file? Why am I not able to keep remember the choice to open .pps file with openoffice? Thanks for any help, Sebastien signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
