Misssing association for PDF?

[Matej Cepl <ceplm@seznam.cz>]

Hi,

I have a problem with associating PDF for anything useful -- whether I do it
through Control Panel or Properties of the file, KDE doesn't like it
remembers the association and either claims that kdeinit couldn't launch
filename.pdf or (in better cases) I get the dialog box asking me which
application should be used for opening PDF file (and no, when I
check "Remember to open with this application" box, it doesn't remember
anything).

I tried it with testing user and there everything worked smoothly, so I
guess there must be something wrong with my ~/.kde. However, even when I
removed from ~/.kde/share everything except apps, config, and wallpapers
folders (while KDE was switched off, of course), it didn't help and the
error was same (this time in "Which application to use?" form).

I am doing research and most of my data are from Internet and many of them
in PDF, so this is really unpleasant.

Have anybody met anything so weird? Is it known bug, or is there known
workaround?

Thanks,

Matěj

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