Comment 59 for bug 503372

aaaand, years later, this bug persist.
It is clear that a higher priority needs to be applied, this is probably one of the most annoying bugs I ever confronted...

Pease guys, someone fix this.

I'm running Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04 with Gnome 3.12.2 and the problem persist when a third-party app triggers a pdf to be open. Firefox, sublime, texmaker... when evince opens, none of the preferences are recognized.