At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. >> >> For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains >> unable to open document >> unhandled mime type > > As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I > recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of > others from other DEs go scrambled. Rebuilding kdelibs fixed all of it. > > I never did figure out how this could occur. Possibly it's something to do > with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can > have > system-wide side0effects. Yes, I should have mentioned that I am a gnome user. Thank you for responding. allan

