Choosing a .pdf viewer

I'm running gnome 2.12.3 on an up-to-date gentoo system. I would like to be
able to choose the default pdf viewer used by Nautilus when I double-click
on a .pdf file (the current default, the Gnome PDF Viewer, has serious
rendering and performance problems with certain .pdf files and also doesn't
appear to offer the ability to search a .pdf file). I have tried
Settings->File Types and Programs, which I find completely unusable for this
(and when you click Help->Help with 'File Types and Programs' settings, you
either get a message saying the help file doesn't exist, or Nautilus
crashes). For example, in attempting to substitute evince for the default
.pdf viewer, I click 'pdf document' in the main window. Then I click the
'Open with Application' radio button and 'Edit list' in the default action
section and add evince to the list. Then I select it in the pulldown. Then I
click 'Ok'. Great. Except this has no effect on Nautilus' choice of a .pdf
viewer. And if I go back to File Types and Programs and look at the entry
for 'pdf document' in the main window, the default action is 'none'. It
would seem like a bug report or two is in order here, which I will do. But
meanwhile, any suggestions for working around this?

Thanks --
/Don Allen
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