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Hi qole, I read this thread and you seem competent to solve my problem.
On my N900 (running Maemo5) I installed dbus-switchboard. I ran dbus-switchboard-gui (with root user), and add a new Handler, and I add :
Abiword,cli,abiword %params%
to /usr/lib/dbus-switchboard/dbus-switch-apps.cfg.
I modified /usr/lib/dbus-switchboard/dbus-switch-xref.cfg :
.doc,Abiword,

I rebooted the device, but when I try to open a .doc file, I have a yellow banner saying "No handler configured for this type".
I tried to debug using :
dbus-switchboard.py
I get the following :
dbus-switchboard started
--
-- dbus-switchboard: Received an RPC to mime_open.
-- dbus-switchboard: RPC had arguments ['file:///home/user/MyDocs/.documents/MARTINS%20(IB).doc'].
--
-- params : file://%5B%27/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/MARTINS%20%28IB%29.doc%27%5D
-- params2 : %5B%27/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/MARTINS%20%28IB%29.doc%27%5D
-- realparams : file://['/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/MARTINS (IB).doc']
-- realparams2 : ['/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/MARTINS (IB).doc']
--
no handler found

So I don't understand why dbus-switchboard doesn't found my handler, and finally open the file using Abiword.
Could you help me a little ?

qole : appreciate your help. how do i have to configure dbus-switchboard

Have the latest version of dbus-switchboard installed.
When I try to open a docx, doc, odt ect..file. in openoffice with the maemo file manager i got for a second of two a black update screen and after that nothing happend.
Same with evince maemo. Have also easy debian installed.
This afternoon it seems to work but suddenly it disapears

.

Have also noticed :
Have now installed docs to go premium
When i try to open a doc file via filemanager or e-mail attachment then
the file is opened via document togo but it freezes then.
when I uninstall the dbus-switchboard the file opens also but now i can scroll.
what is wrong ??

doctor madness: it doesn't look like you are using the version of dbus-switchboard from extras-devel. It should strip the [' and the '] but it isn't doing that on yours...

RdM: You should get a yellow banner saying something like, "Opening document.doc with OpenOffice" ... and I don't have docs to go installed, so I don't know why it is freezing on you.

@Qole I have made a fresh start . Flashed the OS and the mass memory.
Installed only easy-debian and dbus-switchboard.
If I try to open a docx or a doc file in the native maemo file manager. nothing happend.
if i choose from the "open with..." context menu dbus-switchboard .
If itry to open such a doc or a docx from a e-mail ( modest) attachement I got a black update screen for a second or two and the sceen goes to the desktop screen and nothing happend.
I was expecting that the documents would be openend bij "OpenOffice".
I got no yellow banner saying something.

When I check the settings from Dbus-switchboard
I see the following from Xref : .doc OpenOffice, .docx OpenOffice Writer
When check the Handlers I see : OpenOffice handler debbie ooffice "%params%"
for OpenOffice Writer handler = debbie oowriter "%params%".

Is my expectation wrong that doc , docx files could be opened with the maemo file manager utilizing the debian OpenOffice application.
With the pcmanfm debian file manager have no problem.
I suppose that when I can open the files with the maemo file manager that the doc e-mail attachment will be no problem

Do I have to change some settings ??? or is my expectation wrong as here we are talking of a maemo and a debian enviroment.

Would be happy if you could help as I got a lot of mails with doc, xls and pdf attachements

RdM: I honestly don't know what's wrong, it works for me "out of the box"...

qole
I don{t know if this is an indication that when it was working for a short while ( few hours) 2 days ago i thought i saw in XREF .doc , .docx ect.... OpenOffice Debian instead of just OpenOffice.
The case is how i can create it again.
thank you for your response

After installing dbus-switchboard and rebooting I tried to start it so that I could configure the Citrix .ica file type.
The dbus-switchboard program starts and shows in the title bar for a while then disappears.
Running dbus-switchboard.py in x-term returns a message ending 'Cannot Initialise Context'.
Have tried uninstalling and then reinstalling to no avail.
Can anyone help?
Is there an easy way for me to post the full diagnostic message?
Thanks

qole : i switched to freoffice so I'd like to remove all the stuff introduced by dbus-switchboard, Is there something special to do , or just to remove the package ? (apt-get remove --purge ?)

doc madness: A purge should set all the files back to defaults.

Do you like freoffice? Does it do the job?