Description of problem: When the preferred application for viewing PDF is messed up (e.g. gimp taking priority over evince), nautilus does not allow restoring sane behavior: Right-clicking a PDF file, "Open with other application...", selecting "Document viewer" and checking "Remember this application for PDF document files" has no effect. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.30.1-3.fc13 How reproducible: Always (on my system - I did not check from a fresh reinstall of entire OS) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start from working F13 desktop distribution 2. Install acrobat reader from adobe repository via yum 3. Acrobat is now default PDF reader 4. Uninstall acrobat reader 5. Gimp is now default PDF reader 6. Try to restore evince as Default PDF reader as described above Actual results: Gimp remains default PDF reader Expected results: Evince becomes default PDF reader Additional info: There is obviously a second bug or at some strangeness in steps 2-4 above. This bug report is not about this (as it involves a proprietary third party package), I noted it only as one way of getting a messed-up configuration. What this bug is about is that there should be a GUI way within GNOME to restore to a sane default. I also tried "Preferences -> Preferred Applications", but it does not have a section for PDF files. I am not sure if that's a bug or a feature, but I find it at least unpleasantly surprising that there is no control at this level for a very common file type handling application.
OK, I have now, after several hours of trying, found how to do it: It's under "Right click on file" -> Properties -> Open With. So, no bug. Maybe I am getting too old to find all this GUI stuff intuitive. But then, maybe, there are some real usability issues: 1. I would expect that "Preferences -> Preferred Applications" gives a view on "Preferred Applications" for any file type. Alas, it does not. There is also no global view in the GConf Editor, in fact, despite of much searching, I could not find any entries there. I'd think a complete view on preferred applications settings would be very handy, otherwise one has to first find a file each type to change preferences. 2. On the "Right click on file" menue, the first couple of entries refer to the "Preferred Applications", yet to change this, one has to go down to the very bottom of the menu. Very unexpected. (or does maybe some proprietary OS do it this way, so nobody finds this strange?) 3. There is a logical inversion here: One has to go to the Properties dialog of a single file to change global settings. 4. "Right click on file" -> Open with has a button "Remember this application for XXX files" which does a half-job of putting a new entry into the "Right click on file" menu, but does not provide a mechanism to finish the job, namely to change the default. No hint that this is tucked away under "Right click on file" -> Properties -> Open With. My suggestion would be to fix up "Preferences -> Preferred Applications" to display and change all application preferences, as well as adding a change of default option to "Right click on file" -> Open with dialog. As far as I am concerned, the "Right click on file" -> Properties -> Open With can just as well stay (even though I think it's in the wrong place) unless there is a good reason for removing it.
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