Re: [moz-bonobo-list] Some MIME work, other not

[Christian Glodt]

Hi,

sorry for the delay, I've been traveling.

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:12, Luca Capello wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've GNOME 2.4 and Mozilla 1.5. I installed the latest 'mozilla-bonobo' 
> .deb package and in
>       /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins,
> I can correctly see the 'libmozilla_bonobo.so', symbolic link to
>       /usr/lib/mozilla-bonobo/libmozilla_bonobo.so

alright

> Now, the problem is that from the 'mozilla-bonobo' test page, some MIME 
> types work (Y) and other not (N), precisely:
>       N - pdf (Adobe plugins not installed, just using the GGV)
>       Y - ps
>       N - gnumeric (Gnumeric not installed)
>       N - xls
>       Y/N - abw (AbiWord not installed, but I see XML code)
>       N - rtf
>       N - doc
>       Y/N - gchempaint (GChemPain not installed, but I see XML code)
>       Y/N - gcrystal (GCrystal not installed, but I see XML code)
>       N - svg (AdobeViewer not installed and no Mozilla-svg)

Generally, you can only view files for which you have a component
that is capable of displaying them. So, gnumeric, xls, abw, rtf, doc,
gchempaint and gcrystal can not be displayed by mozilla-bonobo because
the respective applications (that provide the bonobo components) are not
installed.

> How can I configure the plugin to:
> - use GGV for .pdf (as for the .ps)?

Mozilla-bonobo uses the configuration that is defined in the
Gnome preferences. Please check the viewer component
that is selected in the File Types & Programs Preferences
for PDF documents.

> - use OpenOffice.org 1.1 for .xls/.doc/.rtf?

Mozilla-bonobo can only use bonobo components to display
files, not arbitrary programs. OpenOffice.org does not
currently have a bonobo component, although Ximian are
working on it.

> - add a specific entry (like .ppt/OpenOffice.org)?

This should work automagically once OpenOffice.org gets
its bonobo component. You can't really add an entry manually -
in fact, the entries are added by the components that
support them.

> Is there a way to see AbiWord/Gnumeric/GChemPaint/GCrystal document w/o 
> the relatives programs installed?

No

>  For the first two, as I use 
> OpenOffice.org, I wouldn't install other similar programs.

Once the OpenOffice.org bonobo component works, you can use
that one instead of those supplied by abiword and gnumeric.

> The last one, is there a list w/ all the files managed by 'mozilla-bonobo'?

The easiest way to see such a list is to enter "about:plugins"
in the location entry in Mozilla.

Regards,

Christian Glodt