Nautilus's 'open with' list

Question

In nautilus when I try to open a pdf with Adobe Reader, I cannot find Adobe Reader in open with.... In dolphin there's not such problem.

How can I add Adobe Reader Link to "Open With..." list in nautilus?

I use nautilus in KDE environment.

Answer 1

the installed program have a .desktop that have to be edited to be listed in nautilus's "open with list"
to do that,you first have to locate that file

ls /usr/share/applications/`

you should be able to guess the .desktop associated with your program.
let's say i want to add vlc to the list, i edit the desktop file with

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop

and change Exec=vlc to Exec=vlc %u

in your case you edit:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/AdobeReader.desktop

and change Exec=AdobeReader to Exec=AdobeReader %u

Answer 2

Use mimeopen to select the default option. The application will be available in Nautilus also.

From man mimeopen

-d, --ask-default
       Let the user choose a new default program for given files.

Just run in terminal

 mimeopen -d file.pdf

and choose your option. It will be default from Nautilus also.

Example:

souravc@vworkstation:~/Downloads$ mimeopen -d asgmnt.pdf 
Please choose a default application for files of type application/pdf

1) Document Viewer  (evince)
2) Adobe Reader 9  (AdobeReader)
3) Other...

use application #2
Opening "asgmnt.pdf" with Adobe Reader 9  (application/pdf)