Bug#934289: evince-common: Make evince compatible with mailcap.order

Jakub Wilk jwilk at jwilk.net
Fri Aug 9 09:35:15 BST 2019


* Judicael Courant <judicael at jcourant.fr>, 2019-08-09, 10:07:
>I would like 'see foo.pdf' to open evince (for all users).
>
>I guess mailcap.order(5) is the right place to give evince priority 
>over other pdf readers. Unfortunately that does not work: I added the 
>line
>
>evince:application/pdf

FWIW, you should be able to make it work by using the name of the deskop 
file:

org.gnome.Evince:application/pdf

Admittedly this is neither intuitive nor (AFAIK) documented anywhere. :-/

-- 
Jakub Wilk



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