Controlling Evolution MIME helper associations?

[Mark Evenson]

Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
[...]
> 3. Write appropriate default.list.  For our example with .doc and .xls
> it would be
> 
>     [Default Applications]
>     application/msword=openoffice.org-2.4.1-writer.desktop;
>     application/vnd.ms-excel=openoffice.org-2.4.1-calc.desktop;

Writing a ~/.local/share/mime/applications/defaults.list

[Default Applications]
application/vnd.ms-excel=custom-openoffice.desktop;
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text=custom-openoffice.desktop;
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint=custom-openoffice.desktop;

With  the following in a newly created 
~/.local/share/applications/custome-openoffice.dektop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=OpenOffice
Exec=/usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-3.0.0 %U
Comment=

works for me as Andrew suggested.

Thanks to all who responded.

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