Ubuntu
evince package

evince will not launch external applications

Bug #210081 reported by Pausanias on 2008-04-01

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Evince	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #554500
	evince (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

In gutsy, evince used to be able to launch external helper applications. In a fully updated hardy, it doesn't seem to do this, at least with the attached example.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Download test.tar.gz attachment, unpack in a directory, cd to it.
2) Load test.pdf in gutsy's evince. A movie player will launch if you
     click on the image on the last page, assuming your system can
     play MOV files.
3) Load test.pdf in hardy's evince. Even though the tooltip says that
    evince intends to launch the movie player, it doesn't. However,
    the movie can be played just fine using a properly configure totem.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/evince

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Pausanias (pausanias) wrote on 2008-04-01:

test.tar.gz Edit (3.1 MiB, application/x-tar)

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Christophe Dehais (christophe-dehais) wrote on 2008-05-13:

Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-09-12:

thank you for your bug report, that seems to be an upstream issue, could you open it on bugzilla.gnome.org too?

Changed in evince:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Pausanias (pausanias) wrote on 2008-09-12:

While referring Ubuntu users to upstream may be a useful time saving measure, I respectfully must say that I believe this principle is flawed. Ubuntu users should not be need to open multiple bug reports. Dealing with upstream should be strictly the Ubuntu developer's job.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-09-12:

there is too many bugs which are open for the current team, so either the bug is sent upstream by somebody or it'll just stay there as that's the case now it doesn't hurt to ask if users are wanting to do that, if they don't that's fine some bug triager will do it it could just take a while

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-09-30:

The bug has been sent on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554500

Changed in evince:
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-10-01

Changed in evince:
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-10-06

Changed in evince:
status:	New → Fix Released

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-10-06:

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in evince:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-10-20:

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

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evince (2.24.1-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (LP: #286634)
    - Disable toggle function of F5 when in presentation mode
      (LP: #226594)
    - Create a loading thumbnail for every different page size
      (LP: #277516)
    - Fix several memory leaks
    - Do not show bad titles like 'Microsoft Word' in the window title
      bar
    - Fix mailto links which were considered as http uris (LP: #280163)
    - Fix launching external applications (LP: #210081)
    - Other bugs fixed
    - Translation updates: be@latin, cs, da, et, ja
  * 70_pdf_loading.patch removed as applied upstream
  * Reshape 99_autoconf.patch with autoconf tools to make it applied

-- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:12:08 +0200

Changed in evince:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-15

Changed in evince:
importance:	Unknown → Medium

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efa (efa) wrote on 2016-05-28:

as the bug was opened in 2008, fix was available with upstream evince 2.24 but in ubuntu evince 3.10.3 still is present, here the solution found out of launchpad:

sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince /etc/apparmor.d/disable/usr.bin.evince
sudo service apparmor restart