F13: strange default for PDF viewer

[Mike Williams]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Jonathan Underwood
<jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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;
There is mention of this here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496237

The mimeinfo.cache is apparently ramdonly orders and not intended to
be a priority list.  At least for pps that play by the rules.

>>> 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?

This bug claims that this was a firefox issue and fixed in ff 3.6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445543

I will test this later with firefox 3.6 and see what happens.  I
currently have firefox set to *not* open pdf's because I prefer to
save a local copy and look at it later with evince or acroread instead
of viewing the pdf in the browser.

Mike