pe 19.9.2025 klo 13.28 Simon McVittie ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 at 13:00:23 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >pe 19.9.2025 klo 12.55 Simon McVittie ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > >> The gnome-session-common in experimental already prefers Papers, but I > >> don't think we're ready to release that to unstable yet. > > The reason I say this is because of the upstream code in gnome-session > (which is entangled with components like gnome-shell and gdm), rather > than because of the MIME apps list. It would be fine to prefer Papers > with higher priority than Evince in unstable.
Seeing the commit you just made, I better understand how it's prioritized. > In stable, I think it would be more appropriate (certainly more > conservative) to prefer Evince as higher priority than Papers, while > still preferring Papers as higher priority than any other random app > that happens to be able to open PDFs, such as GIMP. Agreed. A trixie-update upload would be welcome. > The problem is that Evince, Papers and GIMP all declare that they are > valid PDF handlers, and in the absence of any information about which > one to prefer, the desktop environment infrastructure will chose one > essentially at random. I suspect it might be as simple as GIMP coming > before Papers in alphabetical order, or perhaps gimp.desktop before > org.gnome.Papers.desktop. Oh... Yes, that's probably what causes it. > Ideally there would be a way for GIMP to say "yes technically I can open > PDFs, but it's never appropriate for this to be the default", so that > random other PDF readers like xpdf would always "win" vs. GIMP; but there > is currently no such mechanism in the freedesktop.org specifications > (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/issues/219, > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/issues/43) and until such > a mechanism exists, it is not possible for GIMP to declare that it > supports PDFs without it sometimes becoming the default. Noted. Thanks for this super quick fix for unstable. Martin-Éric
