Bug#1112257: gnome-mimeapps has entry for evince but not papers

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Wed Aug 27 22:58:25 BST 2025


Package: gnome-session-common
Version: 48.0-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list
X-Debbugs-Cc: josh at joshtriplett.org

gnome-mimeapps.list has entries for PDF files using
org.gnome.Evince.desktop, but not for using papers. As a result:

$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
gimp.desktop

That's a substantial usability issue.

Now that papers has become the default PDF viewer, please adjust
/usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list to reference
org.gnome.Papers.desktop .


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: arm64

Kernel: Linux 6.16-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

-- no debconf information



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