Re: Evolution attachment problem

Le lun 28/06/2004 à 16:22, guenther a écrit :
> Please, leave the thread on the mailing list. Reply To List or Reply To
> All will do.
ok. Apologizes.

> [ Doh! This sure applies to me too. ;-)  Forgot to manually add the list
> to the recipients. Resending to the list. ]
> 
> 
> > > > > > I'm currently running Evolution 1.4.6. on Debian
> > > > > > Unstable. I cannot attach files to messages. How can I
> > > > > > fix this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > What do you mean exactly? Aren't there no icons visible in the
> > > > > Attachment pane of the Composer? Or do you get an error message?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I suppose the former. Have you tried simply sending a mail with a small
> > > > > test attachment to yourself, even if you don't see an attachment?
> > > > 
> > > > I have exactely this problem : the attachements are correctly attached
> > > > to the email, but i can't see them when editing the email.
> > > 
> > > Using KDE?  Why doesn't anyone consider this important? *sigh*
> >
> > Yes.
> 
> Thanks. Some more info like your distribution and version and whether
> you have Gnome (version?) installed or not might be helpful, too.
I have no Gnome.
> 
> > > > > If this works, you are missing some packages. You will need to have gdk-
> > > > > pixbuf and hicolor-icon-theme installed. IIRC there is another
> > > > > dependency to hicolor-icon-theme which I don't remember OTOH.
> > > >
> > > > I have both packages... so it must be something different.
> > > 
> > > Well, there is another possible cause for this, which came up on IRC
> > > some days ago: A bad Icon Theme.
> > > 
> > > The point is, there are some icon themes not correctly inheriting the
> > > default Gnome Icon Theme and therefore dropping some icons.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I don't remember all paths exactly, but this should work:
> > > 
> > > Try to change your (Gnome Desktops) Icon Theme to something healthy,
> > > like GNOME. Use the Gnome Control Center or call 'gnome-theme-manager'
> > > directly.
> > > 
> > >  Gnome Control Center / Theme / Theme Details / Icons
> > > 
> > > You can check the currently used theme with a simple command:
> > > $ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme
> >
> > This gives : gnome
> 
> Which is fine and should have all your MIME type icons...
> 
> Do you have an MIME icon for plain text? It should be located in
>  $prefix/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-text.png
I have no directory gnome in usr/share/icons, and nothing in  /opt directory.

> where $prefix is the directory prefix your distro puts the Gnome stuff,
> likely /usr or /opt.
> 
> Just a shot in the dark though, to verify. This icon at least is used in
> Gnome 2.4 and 2.6 AFAIK. Maybe you are missing some other packages.
> 
> 
> > > If you don't have the Gnome Control Center installed, it will be a Good
> > > Thing (TM) to grab it anyways. If you insist on not installing, you even
> > > can set this value using 'gconftool-2'.
> >
> > Could you tell me the command, please ?
> 
> You don't need it, as the respective GConf value already is set to
> 'gnome'.
> 
> 'man gconftool-2' will tell you how to use it and set a value. Anyway,
> this command (untested!) should set the Icon Theme to "gnome" -- but it
> will have absolutely no effect at all, as it already is set to "gnome"
> on your account.
> 
> $ gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme gnome
> 
> ...guenther

Nico

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