F13: strange default for PDF viewer

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 28 May 2010 16:10, Marco Guazzone <marco.guazzone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> ?

I saw something like this after accidentally installing the
AdobeReader program, and and then yum removing it. Basically the
AdobeReader rpm clobbers the mime database.