Evince opens web links in gedit

[Nathan]

Binary package hint: evince

When I click on an URL link in evince it opens the downloaded HTML source in gedit.

I expected it to show me the site in my preferred webbrowser (firefox)

When I change in nautilus to open .html files with KWrite evince opens them with KWrite. When I choose for firefox-3.0 (I had to add it myself) it opens in firefox with nautilus, but evince still uses the old KWrite setting.

I'm using Hardy with evince 2.22.0-0ubuntu2, nautilus 2.22.0-0ubuntu3

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, that works fine here with a hardy installation and a live cd, that's more like something broken on your system and not an evince bug, thanks.

[Nathan (nathansamson)]

Hi,

I tested it out with a clean profile: nearly the same happens.

1: Open a PDF document, click on an external link http://something.org
2: firefox opens the website => All ok

Since I'm a webdeveloper, and opens .html documents often to edit them I changed the default program to open .html document from firefox to gedit
3: Open nautilus, search or create a .html file
4: Right-click on it to open the properties menu
5: go to the Open With tab
6: Select Text editor (gedit)
7: Close the menu, and click once again on the link in the PDF document
8: Gedit downloads the document, opens it and shows the HTML code

9: Repeat step 5-7, but choose firefox again
10: Firefox opens as expected

Maybe this is normal behaviour for evince because it uses gvfs or whatever to open the documents, but it is not what I want that it does. Maybe it is not an evince bug, but a gnome/gvfs/nautilus/whatever bug.

If you say it is my system (but it is not the user configuration, since I used a clean new profile), I want to know what can cause it. It would be already very useful to know what method evince uses to open links (gnome-open, ...).

[_oOMOo_ (hermann-blaxhall)]

Yes I suppose it's more of a feature request in this case, but it's certainly a feature I'd love to see. I too set htm documents to open with gedit, but if I click a link in Firefox it doesn't open the page up in a text editor!!!