File catalog, URL field, why gimp opens pdf files?

[Robby Stephenson]

On Wednesday 21 January 2009, 田海博 wrote:
> I created a file catalog.  There is a URL field. The target is a pdf
> file such as file:///location/xxx.pdf. When I click the URL, GIMP
> program is started.
> I wish it is not GIMP but evince, adobe reader or pdf editor.  However I
> cannot find out a solution. Is it a bug? What should I do? Could you
> please tell me? Thanks!

Try the command
kcmshell filetypes
and edit the pdf settings maybe?

Or even
keditfiletype application/pdf

http://forum.kde.org/cannot-change-file-associations-t-10381-2.html
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Architecture/KDE3/MIME_Types

From some internet searches, it appears that this question comes up often. 
Tellico should probably use the xdg-open command if available on the 
system. I think that might be taken care of automatically for kde4.

Robby