Bug#594838: $ evince http://... does not work

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Mo, 2010-08-30 at 09:33 +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> Package: evince
> Version: 2.30.3-1
> 
> The man page says
>    Evince also sup- ports handling of remote files. For
>    example, you can pass the location on the web or load a
>    file from a FTP server, like "ftp://adobe.com/sample.pdf".
> But e.g.,
> $ evince http://www1.hl.gov.tw/bus/upload/%AA%E1%BD%AC%AB%C8%B9B%A5%FA%C2%D7%BDu%AE%C9%B6%A1%AA%ED.pdf
> does not work. One gets an error message.

Do you have gvfs-backends installed? It's needed for stuff like this.

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