Bug#522998: files now opened by gimp by default
Mirosław Zalewski
miniopl at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 16:40:59 UTC 2011
Package: gimp
Version: 2.6.11-2
Followup-For: Bug #522998
Some time ago GIMP started to be my default PDF viewer. I didn't really
cared about it that much until recently.
I noticed that you can simply delete association of PDF and GIMP in
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. Unfortunetly, GIMP tends to
associate itself with PDF after some time. To prevent it, you can simply
delete application/pdf from MimeType line in
/usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop. I think that this is the best
solution.
Why? Because most people just want to read PDF, not edit it. When GIMP
pops up as default PDF browser, it is annoying for most people. There
are plenty of posts about it all around the web:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/574342
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/398397-gimp-default-opening-pdfs-firefox.html
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92490
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82174
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321111
http://superuser.com/questions/170035/pdfs-open-in-gimp-on-linux-system
et cetera
I think that removing application/pdf from gimp.desktop will best suit
most of users. If anyone would like to open PDF in GIMP, he or she can
still open GIMP and select File -> Open.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gimp depends on:
ii gimp-data 2.6.11-2 Data files for GIMP
ii libaa1 1.4p5-38+b1 ascii art library
ii libatk1.0-0 2.0.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbabl-0.0-0 0.0.22-1 Dynamic, any to any, pixel format
ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.12-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.94-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libexif12 0.6.20-1 library to parse EXIF files
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.3-3 GDK Pixbuf library
ii libgegl-0.0-0 0.0.22-2+b1 Generic Graphics Library
ii libgimp2.0 2.6.11-2 Libraries for the GNU Image Manipu
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblcms1 1.18.dfsg-1.2+b4 Color management library
ii libmng1 1.0.10-1+b1 Multiple-image Network Graphics li
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-6 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler-glib4 0.12.4-1.2 PDF rendering library (GLib-based
ii librsvg2-2 2.34.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libtiff4 3.9.5-1 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libwebkit-1.0-2 1.2.7-3 Web content engine library for Gtk
ii libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-8 Windows metafile conversion librar
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.3.0-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.9-1 X11 pixmap library
ii python 2.6.6-14 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii python-support 1.0.13 automated rebuilding support for P
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
gimp recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gimp suggests:
ii ghostscript 9.02~dfsg-2 interpreter for the PostScript lan
ii gimp-data-extras 1:2.0.1-3 An extra set of brushes, palettes,
pn gimp-help-en | gimp-help <none> (no description available)
pn gvfs-backends <none> (no description available)
ii libasound2 1.0.23-4 shared library for ALSA applicatio
-- no debconf information
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