This is installed from wine applications, and yes unfortunately they can create a mess (like making the wine "notepad" the default text editor).

You need to delete those mime applications that wine creates under your home folder.

Try something like:
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine

or search and delete the file that you told me (wine-extension-pdf).

The previous gnome instructions I told you should have worked though.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
On 07/07/10 12:45:05, App Deb wrote:
> Right click on a pdf file, select properties -> open with -> and
> select
> evince instead of acroread.
>
> That it the way to easily change default applications for gnome.

Unfortunately, not for me (Gnome 2.30)
Before and after the above procedure I have

gnomevfs-info MyFile.pdf
still shows
MIME type         : application/pdf
Default app       : wine-extension-pdf.desktop

I wonder where this 'wine-extension-pdf.desktop' is coming from.

And Balsa tries to use this when viewing a pdf attachment.
I'm lost,
Helmut.



> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Helmut Jarausch <
> jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've discovered balsa , a great mail client, btw.
> > How can I configure the application which is called for a pdf
> > attachment.
> >
> > I cannot see any configuration item for balsa itself, so I suppose
> > it must be a Gnome setting.
> >
> > Currently it's set to acroread, but I'd like to set it evince.
> > I've checked ~/.mime.types and several files in /usr/share/mime*
> >
> > The only file I've found is
> > /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys
> >
> > Is that the right place? How should I edit it (with a standard text
> > editor?)
> >
> > Many thanks for your help,
> > Helmut.
> >
> >
> >
>