#807772 task-xfce-desktop: MIME type for PDFs defaults to GIMP; should be Evince or similar

Package:
xfce4
Source:
xfce4
Submitter:
Eirik Wixøe Svela
Date:
2015-12-14 04:09:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#807772#5
Date:
2015-12-12 18:00:48 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

I have noticed that on installing the XFCE version of Debian, PDF files are
automatically opened in GIMP. Of course, this is easily modified by the user,
but I believe it would improve the out-of-the-box usability of the config and
also save beginners some effort if this curious design decision were changed to
something a little more intuitive. I believe Evince, or something like that,
comes with the default XFCE task. This seems like it would be an easy fix.

Regards

Eirik W Svela
#807772#10
Date:
2015-12-13 01:24:42 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

I can confirm this and could probably test fixes. Thanks Eirik for filing this
bug, too.


cheers,
	Holger
#807772#15
Date:
2015-12-13 07:41:46 UTC
From:
To:
Quoting Eirik Wixøe Svela (ews1989@gmail.com):


The problem is finding in what package that should be
fixed. task-xfce-desktop has only the duty to depend on Xfce packages,
so this setting probably belongs to one of them....
#807772#20
Date:
2015-12-14 03:59:15 UTC
From:
To:
Control: reassign -1 xfce4

Le Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 08:41:46AM +0100, Christian PERRIER a écrit :

Hello everybody,

To put the XFCE package maintainers in the loop, I am reassigning this bug to
xfce4.  If the problem is affecting more desktop environments, it will be
simple to reassign again...

In my understanding, it is possible to provide a pre-defined list of desktop
entries to break ties when more than one application can be associated to a
given media type.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.html

Maybe that is the easiest solution ?

Have a nice day,