Debian Bug report logs - #807772
task-xfce-desktop: MIME type for PDFs defaults to GIMP; should be Evince or similar

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eirik Wixøe Svela <ews1989@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: task-xfce-desktop: MIME type for PDFs defaults to GIMP; should be Evince or similar

Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 19:00:48 +0100

Package: task-xfce-desktop
Version: 3.31+deb8u1
Severity: normal

Hello,

I have noticed that on installing the XFCE version of Debian, PDF files are
automatically opened in GIMP. Of course, this is easily modified by the user,
but I believe it would improve the out-of-the-box usability of the config and
also save beginners some effort if this curious design decision were changed to
something a little more intuitive. I believe Evince, or something like that,
comes with the default XFCE task. This seems like it would be an easy fix.

Regards

Eirik W Svela

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nn_NO.utf8, LC_CTYPE=nn_NO.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages task-xfce-desktop depends on:
ii  lightdm       1.10.3-3
ii  task-desktop  3.31+deb8u1
ii  tasksel       3.31+deb8u1
ii  xfce4         4.10.1

Versions of packages task-xfce-desktop recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  evince                  3.14.1-2
ii  gnome-orca              3.14.0-4
ii  hunspell-en-us          20070829-6
ii  hyphen-en-us            2.8.8-1
ii  iceweasel               38.4.0esr-1~deb8u1
ii  libreoffice             1:4.3.3-2+deb8u2
ii  libreoffice-gtk         1:4.3.3-2+deb8u2
ii  libreoffice-help-en-us  1:4.3.3-2+deb8u2
ii  mousepad                0.3.0-2
ii  mythes-en-us            1:3.3.0-4
ii  network-manager-gnome   0.9.10.0-2
ii  orage                   4.10.0-1+b2
ii  quodlibet               3.2.2-1
ii  synaptic                0.81.2
ii  system-config-printer   1.4.6-1
ii  tango-icon-theme        0.8.90-5
ii  vlc                     2.2.0~rc2-2+deb8u1
ii  xfce4-goodies           4.10
ii  xfce4-mixer             4.10.0-3
ii  xfce4-power-manager     1.4.1-1
ii  xfce4-terminal          0.6.3-1+b1
ii  xsane                   0.998-6+b1

task-xfce-desktop suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 807772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>

To: Eirik Wixøe Svela <ews1989@gmail.com>, 807772@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#807772: task-xfce-desktop: MIME type for PDFs defaults to GIMP; should be Evince or similar

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 02:24:42 +0100

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Hi,

On Samstag, 12. Dezember 2015, Eirik Wixøe Svela wrote:
> I have noticed that on installing the XFCE version of Debian, PDF files are
> automatically opened in GIMP. Of course, this is easily modified by the
> user…

I can confirm this and could probably test fixes. Thanks Eirik for filing this 
bug, too.


cheers,
	Holger

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Message #15 received at 807772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>

To: Eirik Wixøe Svela <ews1989@gmail.com>, 807772@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#807772: task-xfce-desktop: MIME type for PDFs defaults to GIMP; should be Evince or similar

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:41:46 +0100

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Quoting Eirik Wixøe Svela (ews1989@gmail.com):
> Package: task-xfce-desktop
> Version: 3.31+deb8u1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have noticed that on installing the XFCE version of Debian, PDF files are
> automatically opened in GIMP. Of course, this is easily modified by the user,
> but I believe it would improve the out-of-the-box usability of the config and
> also save beginners some effort if this curious design decision were changed to
> something a little more intuitive. I believe Evince, or something like that,
> comes with the default XFCE task. This seems like it would be an easy fix.


The problem is finding in what package that should be
fixed. task-xfce-desktop has only the duty to depend on Xfce packages,
so this setting probably belongs to one of them....

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Message #20 received at 807772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>

To: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>, 807772@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Eirik Wixøe Svela <ews1989@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: Bug#807772: task-xfce-desktop: MIME type for PDFs defaults to GIMP; should be Evince or similar

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:59:15 +0900

Control: reassign -1 xfce4

> Quoting Eirik Wixøe Svela (ews1989@gmail.com):
> > Package: task-xfce-desktop
> > Version: 3.31+deb8u1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I have noticed that on installing the XFCE version of Debian, PDF files are
> > automatically opened in GIMP. Of course, this is easily modified by the user,
> > but I believe it would improve the out-of-the-box usability of the config and
> > also save beginners some effort if this curious design decision were changed to
> > something a little more intuitive. I believe Evince, or something like that,
> > comes with the default XFCE task. This seems like it would be an easy fix.

Le Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 08:41:46AM +0100, Christian PERRIER a écrit :
> 
> The problem is finding in what package that should be
> fixed. task-xfce-desktop has only the duty to depend on Xfce packages,
> so this setting probably belongs to one of them....

Hello everybody,

To put the XFCE package maintainers in the loop, I am reassigning this bug to
xfce4.  If the problem is affecting more desktop environments, it will be
simple to reassign again...

In my understanding, it is possible to provide a pre-defined list of desktop
entries to break ties when more than one application can be associated to a
given media type.

    http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.html

Maybe that is the easiest solution ?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

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