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Message #29654
Re: pull default PDF viewer
works great! I'll submit a patch in a sec.
cheers
Fabrizio
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Fabrizio,
>
> Try replacing wxMimeTypeManager with wxLaunchDefaultApplication[1]. It
> looks like this might be a better solution. I would try it myself but
> I'm at work and don't have access to a linux system.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> [1]:
> http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/group__group__funcmacro__misc.html#
> ga04038d4c78e4c111d018b8f82b2d66c3
>
> On 6/7/2017 3:37 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> > Hi Wayne,
> > it is indeed checked and it appears to be a 2 year old bug.....
> >
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.wxwidgets.devel/162783
> >
> > Any idea of how to properly fix this problem?
> >
> > cheers
> > Fabrizio
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/6/2017 4:17 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> > > Apologies for presenting this problem again and again
> > >
> > > I think this topic came up too many times but (on my linux
> system) the
> > > default PDF viewer is not pulled correctly by kiCad. From the
> terminal:
> > >
> > > $ cat /usr/share/applications/defaults.list | grep pdf
> > > application/pdf=xreader.desktop;evince.desktop;atril.desktop
> >
> > Is this the same as the mime type? Look at another app such as
> > Thunderbird and see what app it uses to open PDF files.
> >
> > >
> > > but KiCad insist using Gimp.
> >
> > Is Preferences->PDF Viewer->System Default PDF Viewer in the KiCad
> > launcher checked? If not, KiCad will attempt to fall back on some
> > reasonable default. If it is checked, then there is most likely a
> bug
> > in wxMimeTypeManager which is used to determine the system command to
> > open a PDF file.
> >
> > >
> > > can anybody point me to the right direction? I am looking at
> preferences.cpp
> >
> > The source file you are looking for is common/gestfich.cpp. The
> > function is OpenPDF().
> >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Fabrizio
> > >
> > >
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