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?
Apps cannot register themselves as "the default app" for a MIME type
(intentionally not a thing they can do, to avoid app authors fighting
over the default), they can only register themselves as *an* app that
can open a MIME type. It's up to desktop environments to set a
preferred app or apps (in GNOME this is done in
/usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list, part of
gnome-session-common).
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.
smcv
