David,

"At the moment only I can write to /windows: will your suggested
workaround allow any user of evince to do it?" -- Normal discretionary
access controls are still in effect. By adding the rule I mentioned to
your profile, users will have read and write access to /windows if
normal unix permissions allow it.

As for why /windows is there at all, I don't know. I do see in
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab that the recommended place to
mount your windows partition is /media/windows. If an Ubuntu application
is creating and using directories outside of the Filesystem Hierarchy
Standard (FHS), then that is a separate bug in that application. The
evince AppArmor profile should support mountable media via FHS, and I
will fix that.

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cannot create directory outside of $HOME
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490230
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