Hi, The .desktop file distributed with the evince package (/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop) contains:
Exec=evince %U meaning that the user's $PATH is taken into account. In general, taking $PATH into account is recommended, but IMHO, this should not be the case here, because of the following points (related to each other): 1. This .desktop file is a file associated with /usr/bin/evince (distributed in the same package...). 2. Taking the user's $PATH into account may have unexpected effects, such as running a different version of evince which may accept a different set of MIME types, or worse, running an evince program that has a completely different behavior: the user (who may be different from the administrator of the machine and may not know GNOME's evince) may have written a program called "evince" (FYI, this is a French word that means "oust") and installed it in his $HOME/bin directory. 3. In config files, $PATH is generally used when one doesn't know the location of the program, for flexibility, but this is not the case here (see point 1). Here the choice of specifying an executable relative to $PATH should only be a choice made by the user himself. Other packages may be affected by the same problem. Note that this is a followup to bug 488971: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488971 (With xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support, iceweasel announces e.g. xpdf, but actually launches evince.) -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
