"Donald Allen" <donaldcallen@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm running gnome 2.12.3 on an up-to-date gentoo system. I would like > to be able to choose the default pdf viewer used by Nautilus when I > double-click on a .pdf file (the current default, the Gnome PDF > Viewer, has serious rendering and performance problems with certain > .pdf files and also doesn't appear to offer the ability to search a > .pdf file). I have tried Settings-> File Types and Programs, which I > find completely unusable for this (and when you click Help-> Help with > File Types and Programs' settings, you either get a message saying the > help file doesn't exist, or Nautilus crashes). For example, in > attempting to substitute evince for the default .pdf viewer, I click > pdf document' in the main window. Then I click the 'Open with > Application' radio button and 'Edit list' in the default action > section and add evince to the list. Then I select it in the > pulldown. Then I click 'Ok'. Great. Except this has no effect on > Nautilus' choice of a .pdf viewer. And if I go back to File Types and > Programs and look at the entry for 'pdf document' in the main window, > the default action is 'none'. It would seem like a bug report or two > is in order here, which I will do. But meanwhile, any suggestions for > working around this? > > Thanks -- /Don Allen > Your claim about the performance of evince is absolutely correct even in gnome 2.14. I have to installed three pdf viewers: xpdf, acroread, evince. Xpdf handles 90% of the files. -- Leon _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list