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Bug 706782 - www-client/google-chrome and www-client/chromium: add pdf to supported MimeTypes in .desktop file
Summary: www-client/google-chrome and www-client/chromium: add pdf to supported MimeTy...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Chromium Project
URL: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/...
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Reported: 2020-01-27 21:44 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2020-04-15 15:39 UTC (History)
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2020-01-27 21:44:50 UTC 
On Linux most PDF viewers are poppler based, we have also mupdf but its interface can be a bit too simple for some users. When some PDF is not properly rendered by poppler, people can be a bit upset after seeing it was ok from firefox or Chrome but, once downloaded, don't.

chrome and chromium can open PDF files simply running "google-chrome/chromium ...pdf", I would then append pdf to the list of MimeTypes for the desktop file to be also offered as an option when people try to open pdf files.

Thanks
Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2020-01-27 22:08:27 UTC 
Please propose your change upstream.

https://crbug.com/

This file would need to be modified.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/master/chrome/installer/linux/common/desktop.template
Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2020-01-31 14:27:00 UTC 
they fixed it in upstream :O
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1046912
Comment 4 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2020-01-31 16:04:57 UTC 
Nice! I guess we will pick this up in a dev channel release soon.