[arch-general] Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?

[Brian Martin]

  On 07/21/2010 10:29 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 14:34, Nilesh Govindarajan<lists at itech7.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Magnus Therning<magnus at therning.org>  wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:24, Wieland Hoffmann<themineo at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>>> On 21.07.2010 12:06, Magnus Therning wrote:
>>>>> Firefox used evince before I installed gimp, so it must be picking up
>>>>> available applications from somewhere, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> It also seems to pick up much more than just the name of the executable, since
>>>>> it displays the choice "GNU Image Manipulation Program (d..." in the dialogue.
>>>> If you're talking about the dialogue I'm thinking of ("What should
>>>> Firefox do with this file?"), you can choose "Other..." and browse for
>>>> an executable of your choice.
>>> Sure I can, but I'm curious of how firefox picked up evince to begin
>>> with, and then picked gimp instead, and why is evince not available as
>>> an option any more?
>>> Is that really only configurable by browsing around for executable
>>> files if I'm unhappy with the default choice?
>> If you were on this list from a long time, then you probably know that
>> even I'd started a thread about a similar issue. It was about file
>> associations with firefox&  thunderbird. Ultimate solution is to use
>> their inbuilt settings- that was what suggested to me.
> How amazingly irritating!
>
> /M
>

There happens to be an archive of this list.  I think the alluded-to 
message is here [0].  I definitely agree it's irritating to tease like 
that without a link.

Brian

[0] 
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-June/013980.html