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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefan,
actually /usr/share/applications/defaults.list among one gazilion lines
says:
application/pdf=evince.desktop;atril.desktop

I am pretty sure I could fix the problem. The thing is, it will not solve
the problem for other people in the same situation.

Any idea for a solution implementable in kicad? a good idea?

fabrizio


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Fabrizio Tappero


On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Stefan Hepp <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> This is truly an old issue, and I had the same issue with other linux
> programs (Opera, Firefox,..) on Kubuntu.
>
> I assume the "issue" is that kicad uses the standard mechanism to
> determine the default viewer, which is not kept in sync by KDE (which is
> the default desktop on Mint, I think).
>
> You will find that the default pdf 'viewer' is set to Gimp in
>
> /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
>
> The list of applications available to open any mimetype seems to come from
> 'mimeinfo.cache' in the same directory. No idea who came up with those
> defaults and why KDE does not update them, but it seems to be the same
> issue in all Ubuntu-based distributions (or even Debian?).
>
>
> You can set the default viewer either by creating a file
>
> kate ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
>
> to contain:
>
> [Default Applications]
> application/pdf=kde4/okular.desktop;
>
>
> You can also achieve the same by running
>
> mimeopen -d dummy.pdf
>
> which will ask you for your preferred viewer and store it to your
> defaults.list.
> (If you choose 'Other', you need to enter a program name like 'okular',
> and it will create a new .desktop file, which is why I prefer editing the
> defaults.list file myself, or/and add my favorite pdf viewer to my local
> mimeinfo.cache first).
>
>
> Cheers,
>  Stefan
>
>
>
>
> On 05.05.2015 00:25, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In my Linux Mint (as I supspect in many Debian distros) any pdf (via
>> double click) gets open with the default Document Viewer, as it should.
>> but kicad insist with Gimp.
>>
>> this is a very old issue and despite the possibility of choosing a pdf
>> reader inside kicad, it seems strange to me that in 2015 there is still
>> no way to tell linux not to read a pdf with gimp.
>>
>> Does anybody know how to work around this proble?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Fabrizio
>>
>>
>>
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