Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:00:24 +0100 Marcin Zwd <marcinzwd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately I had the same problem. The solution you can find here:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258490

Thank you for this information.  Somehow I missed it.

allan

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> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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
>>
>>