Hi Manuel,
here is a bug report from Debian that suggests something regarding
viewer selection. Can you please comment on it?
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Johannes Fichtinger wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> When calling texdoc PACKAGENAME in KDE, the pdf description of the package is
> actually opened with GIMP, instead of using the KDE system-wide setting for
> the default pdf viewer, e.g. okular.
>
> The problem arises due to a wrong selection of the application based on the
> existance of certain commands in
> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/scripts/texdoc/texdoc.tlu (starting from line 747):
>
> viewer_pdf = first_in_path {
> {'gnome-open', '(gnome-open %s) &'}, -- gnome
> {'kde-open', '(kde-open %s) &'}, -- kde 4
> {'kfmclient', '(kfmclient exec %s) &'}, -- older kde
> {'exo-open', '(exo-open %s) &'}, -- xfce
> {'xdg-open', '(xdg-open %s) &'}, -- freedesktop.org
> {'evince', '(evince %s) &'},
> {'okular', '(okular %s) &'},
> [...]
>
> Selecting the pdf-viewer based on the existence of eg. gnome-open in the path
> is incorrect since being in a KDE session still gnome-open might be found in
> the path. It would be better to base the selection instead on some
> environment variables. KDE provides eg.
> declare -x KDE_FULL_SESSION="true"
> which can be used to detect if we are in a running KDE session. Gnome might
> provide similar variables.
>
> Johannes
For Manuel: This is the texdoc version as shipped on the DVD, not that
fixes you put it after release.
Best wishes
Norbert
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