Bug#807772: task-xfce-desktop: MIME type for PDFs defaults to GIMP; should be Evince or similar
Control: reassign -1 xfce4
> Quoting Eirik Wixøe Svela (ews1989@gmail.com):
> > Package: task-xfce-desktop
> > Version: 3.31+deb8u1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > 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.
Le Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 08:41:46AM +0100, Christian PERRIER a écrit :
>
> 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....
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,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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