GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 626080
Unable to open a remote pdf document with the filechooser where evince $URL can
Last modified: 2013-05-24 07:03:42 UTC
1/ I opened evince 2/ open the file choose to choose a file 3/ I set an URL in the location (http://people.fedoraproject.org/~hadess/talks/geoclue.pdf) 4/ pressing «Open» does nothing. in a terminal "evince $URL" works though.
I can confirm this with Ubuntu 10.10 and GTK+ 2.20 (recent update). This is also reproducable with every other application that uses the GTK Filechooser. Once you enter an URL for example http://www.whatever.com/index.html (e.g. in an editor) the "Open" button won't work. The expected behavior should be that the file should be read and opened.
Looks like a GTK+ issue.
Looks like a duplicate of ancient bug 164404. :/
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 164404 ***