On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:37:07PM -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote: > On 9/28/06, Michael V. De Palatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:03:37AM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: > > > As a Gnome app, it should use the default application for that file > > > type. > > > > > > In Gnome 2.14, I just tried it. In Nautilus, right-clicking on a pdf > > > file and selecting "properties->open with", I found that xpdf is the > > > default for .pdf files. Opening a pdf with epiphany opens it in xpdf. > > > I changed it in nautilus to use "Document Viewer" (Evince) and now > > > epiphany opens it in evince. > > > > Well, unfortunately that doesn't work for me. I should be forced into > > using the Gnome settings daemon just so that I can get my web browser > > to use the appropriate helper applications that I want. > > > > This is really probably my biggest complaint about Epiphany -- It is > > over-reliant in areas such as this on being a Gnome application, which > > means that those of us who prefer not to use Gnome have a harder time > > using it. > > There are other non-GNOME browsers. From the project page: > <snip> > > I'm fairly sure they're targeting the GNOME desktop, and are thusly > making it easiest for its users. I, for one, appreciate the > simplicity over using Firefox with its rather complicated > implementation of filetypes and actions.
Certainly. But I like Epiphany over Firefox for a number of reasons (see, e.g., the recent issues between Debian and the Mozilla Foundation; also, e.g., the lighter interface). I just wish there was a way to use the browser *without* having to use Gnome in order to get it to work properly. This is really the only area in which I'm having a problem thus far. Also, I said earlier that I don't want to have to run gnome-settings-daemon. I'm not sure if this would solve the problem or not, actually, but it's just a guess. To reiterate, I do have nautilus configured to use xpdf, despite not using nautilus, and Epiphany still tries to use acroread (this is another point which I didn't mention... it doesn't actually *succeed* in starting acroread... I have to manually kill the processes or else the browser just freezes). -- Michael V. De Palatis Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics 837 State Street Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 mvd 'at' gatech [dot] edu http://mike.depalatis.net _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
