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

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