On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:50 +0100, Antonio M wrote: > I got an attachment (Microsoft Office doc) but I didn't get the option > of F11 to open it with Openoffice or any other application, there is > no open with option, same attachment open fine in F12, starting > Openoffice writer!!! Chances are that whoever sent you that file sent it with the wrong MIME type descriptor. The sending client describes the type of file, and the receiving client passes that file off to the default application for that type of file. If the *type* is not correctly outlined, then the whole system fails to work. Most likely, it was described as application/octet-stream which means "this is some unknown kind of binary file, figure out how to handle this by yourself." If you try to set up your system to believe that all such unidentified files are word documents, by default, then you're setting yourself up for failure with the next NON word document that's sent with the *unknown* *binary* file type description. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
