Bug#522998: files now opened by gimp by default

[Mirosław Zalewski]

Package: gimp
Version: 2.6.11-2
Followup-For: Bug #522998

Some time ago GIMP started to be my default PDF viewer. I didn't really
cared about it that much until recently.

I noticed that you can simply delete association of PDF and GIMP in
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. Unfortunetly, GIMP tends to
associate itself with PDF after some time. To prevent it, you can simply
delete application/pdf from MimeType line in
/usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop. I think that this is the best
solution.

Why? Because most people just want to read PDF, not edit it. When GIMP
pops up as default PDF browser, it is annoying for most people. There
are plenty of posts about it all around the web:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/574342
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/398397-gimp-default-opening-pdfs-firefox.html
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92490
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82174
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321111
http://superuser.com/questions/170035/pdfs-open-in-gimp-on-linux-system
et cetera

I think that removing application/pdf from gimp.desktop will best suit
most of users. If anyone would like to open PDF in GIMP, he or she can
still open GIMP and select File -> Open.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gimp depends on:
ii  gimp-data               2.6.11-2         Data files for GIMP
ii  libaa1                  1.4p5-38+b1      ascii art library
ii  libatk1.0-0             2.0.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbabl-0.0-0           0.0.22-1         Dynamic, any to any, pixel format 
ii  libc6                   2.13-4           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.10.2-6         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.4.12-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.94-2           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexif12               0.6.20-1         library to parse EXIF files
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.4-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0      2.23.3-3         GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libgegl-0.0-0           0.0.22-2+b1      Generic Graphics Library
ii  libgimp2.0              2.6.11-2         Libraries for the GNU Image Manipu
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.28.6-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.24.4-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62               6b1-1            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1                1.18.dfsg-1.2+b4 Color management library
ii  libmng1                 1.0.10-1+b1      Multiple-image Network Graphics li
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.3-6         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.44-2         PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler-glib4        0.12.4-1.2       PDF rendering library (GLib-based 
ii  librsvg2-2              2.34.0-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libtiff4                3.9.5-1          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libwebkit-1.0-2         1.2.7-3          Web content engine library for Gtk
ii  libwmf0.2-7             0.2.8.4-8        Windows metafile conversion librar
ii  libx11-6                2:1.4.3-1        X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                2:1.3.0-1        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3              1:5.0-2          X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxmu6                 2:1.1.0-2        X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                 1:3.5.9-1        X11 pixmap library
ii  python                  2.6.6-14         interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-gtk2             2.24.0-2         Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-support          1.0.13           automated rebuilding support for P
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

gimp recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gimp suggests:
ii  ghostscript                  9.02~dfsg-2 interpreter for the PostScript lan
ii  gimp-data-extras             1:2.0.1-3   An extra set of brushes, palettes,
pn  gimp-help-en | gimp-help     <none>      (no description available)
pn  gvfs-backends                <none>      (no description available)
ii  libasound2                   1.0.23-4    shared library for ALSA applicatio

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