[SOLVED]epiphany, default applications

Hi,
after installing gimp epiphany used it as the default application for opening pdf files...very annoying,
i worked around that with this hack:
cp ~/.mozilla/firefox/3la1zdhr.default/mimeTypes.rdf ~/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/
looks like gnome is in the process of ripping out the firefox backend....so this will probably be solved in the future.
but for now i would like to tell epiphany to download .nzb files to some specific dir or open it with a shell script - how do i do that?
Last edited by metalfan (2009-02-16 23:01:53)

I have the same problem. From what I can see, it's because gimp is listed before evince in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:
grep pdf /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
This file is generated with the update-desktop-database command. So I came up with two non-permanent solutions.
1. Put evince before gimp in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache and repeat each time the update-desktop-database command is run, like when you update an application.
OR
2. Remove the pdf entry from MimeType line in /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop and run update-desktop-database as root. You've got to repeat this fix whenever you update gimp.
I hope that helps.

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