Bug#1115704: papers: fails to register itself as the default app for PDF files

Martin-Éric Racine martin-eric.racine at iki.fi
Fri Sep 19 09:21:33 BST 2025


pe 19.9.2025 klo 11.17 Simon McVittie (smcv at debian.org) kirjoitti:
>
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 at 10:40:19 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> >Since migrating from Evince to Papers, I keep on having to manually
> >select which app I want to open PDF files, otherwise, they open in
> >Gimp. I never had that problem with Evince.
>
> In what desktop environment?

GNOME 48

> I see that the /usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list in
> gnome-session-common only lists Evince and not Papers, so there's
> certainly a change to be made there.

That's probably it. It might be a good idea to push the fix to
trixie-proposed as well.

Martin-Éric



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