Comment 12 for bug 232046

I just installed Kubuntu 9.04 because I read it was the most polished distro ever, but am getting serious flak from my wife - she hates the fact that PDF and Word files on the web don't open for her.

I'd love to see Linux on the desktop succeed but this is the sorft of usability / out of the box issue that holds Windows users back. KPDF and OO are installed by default in kubuntu (and I guess Ubuntu too) - would it not be possible to just set them up as default handlers? Even a half-assed inelegant solution is better than none here.