Description of problem: I am new to XFCE. I only started using it in F18. So perhaps I am filing this bug incorrectly. Sorry. The problem is that when xdg-open tries to open a PDF file (a file ending in .pdf) it evidently is told to use evince because /usr/share/applications/defaults.list lists evince.desktop for application/pdf -- even though I have no evince installed. The epdfviewer should somehow be specified instead, somewhere, perhaps in some file which overrides /usr/share/applications/defaults.list -- but all this sort of thing is nothing I've ever had anything to do with before (since before XFCE evince was automaticlly installed, by Fedora). So I'm considering it a bug. (And which I'm guessing the problem is with the epdfview RPM I can imagine it should be somehow handled elsewhere.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I don't really know how how the detection of the right application to open the file with is supposed to work. $ rpm -qf /usr/share/applications/defaults.list shared-mime-info-1.1-1.fc18.x86_64 Let's reassign to shared-mime-info. Its maintainers should have more knowledge in this area than I do. By the way, epdfview has been retired and will be gone in F19. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/epdfview.git/plain/dead.package
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