F13: strange default for PDF viewer

[Marco Guazzone]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Marco Guazzone wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've noticed that the default PDF viewer in
>> "/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache" is GIMP:
>>
>> application/pdf=gimp.desktop;evince.desktop;
>>
>> In fact, when I try to open a PDF from firefox, it is open with GIMP.
>>
>> If I'm not wrong, in F12 the default was EVINCE
>>
>> Any idea of this change?
>
> Defaults are stored elsewhere, see
>  /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
> (for !=kde anyway).
>

Thank you very much for pointing it out.

Looking at this file I can see:
 application/pdf=AdobeReader.desktop

So why does Firefox try to open a PDF with GIMP?

And why I have the entry
  application/pdf=gimp.desktop;evince.desktop;
in file
  /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
?

Thanks!

Cheers,

-- Marco