Bug 137545

Summary:	Applications> Graphics> PDF Viewer loads ggv, nautilus loads PDFs using gpdf
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Need Real Name <lsof>
Component:	redhat-menus	Assignee:	Seth Nickell <snickell>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	jrb, nobody+bclark
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Description Need Real Name 2004-10-29 13:22:48 UTC

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Applications> Graphics> PDF Viewer loads ggv, nautilus loads PDFs using gpdf

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Bryan W Clark 2004-11-01 06:16:13 UTC

> Applications> Graphics> PDF Viewer loads ggv, 

I don't see this, can you right click on this menu item and view it's properties
to make sure it has 'gpdf %U' in the Command field.

> nautilus loads PDFs using gpdf

GGV should be the default PDF viewer when launched from Nautilus.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2004-11-02 08:17:40 UTC

Ack. I was wrong. Other way around.

Applications> Graphics> PDF Viewer loads gpdf
but nautilus loads PDFs using ggv

They should be the same, shouldn't they?

Comment 3 Bryan W Clark 2004-11-02 08:56:38 UTC

ah yes.  ggv (Postcript Viewer) should be the default for now.  GPDF
is having some serious crasher issues right now, so we've fallen back
to ggv instead.  This is a problem we need to revisit for FC4,
hopefully we'll have worked out a single document viewer in upstream
GNOME by then and can scrap all the other ones.

Comment 4 Need Real Name 2004-11-04 09:57:40 UTC

"GPDF is having some serious crasher issues right now, so we've fallen back to
ggv instead."

But Applications> Graphics> PDF Viewer still loads gpdf

Comment 5 Bryan W Clark 2004-11-04 20:57:40 UTC

We've fallen back to registering ggv as the default viewer for the
mime types associated with pdfs.  Most PDFs are opened via a default
viewer method (like web browser, nautilus) and not really from the
menu item, then finding the PDF.

You make a good point here, but I don't plan on removing 'PDF Viewer'
from the menus or making it launch ggv instead.  GPDF is getting a lot
of upstream work on integrating with the GNOME desktop, the
maintainers of both ggv and gpdf are working to make a single document
viewer that will replace both of these apps.  So I'd like to wait and
see what happens with that.

Comment 6 Bryan W Clark 2005-02-13 04:43:53 UTC

Please try evince as a replacement to gpdf and ggv.  It's still in
it's early stages but is set to deprecate both of those.  You may have
to grab it from rawhide.  See http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

Comment 7 Need Real Name 2005-02-13 09:19:39 UTC

Great. I'll wait until FC4 because of the gtk2 2.6 dependency.
Thanks!