Bug#525077: gimp pdf

[Bart Martens]

I understand that associating gimp with pdf is correct. So this isn't a bug in
gimp, or at most "wishlist". However, opening gimp by default instead of a pdf
viewer, has a "grave" impact on usability for desktop users. It is even so
"grave" that I can imagine that users switch to another Linux distro. In my
view very few users want to open a pdf with gimp, and many users want to open a
pdf with the local pdf viewer, if any available. So an easy change making many
desktop users happy, would be by removing the association between gimp and pdf.
At least for now, until a better solution is found. Let's compare with other
programs capable of opening pdf files: libreoffice isn't included in
/etc/mailcap. I would like to see gimp follow that example.