On a freshly installed system (no Gnome history like the one I first spotted this bug on) it's even worse: Clicking a PDF file yields a message box saying
Could not open document "xyz.pdf". There is no installed viewer capable of displaying the document. eventhough there is KPDF installed (also launched when using xdg-open directly). I attached some strace output again, there you can see that some files and directories are scanned but no attempt is made to call xdg-open. Regards, David
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