[Bug 1125514] Re: Wording fix for "Install software to open files?" window

[Sebastian Heinlein]

I was hoping that this was a kind of test setup and not a real life
screenshot :/

Having a short look at the code I have to admit that the logic of the
dialog isn't very good. The case in which a file cannot be opened at all
isn't handled. That is why you get this strange dialog.

Unfortunately we don't know the path of the file. Only the human
undfriendly mime type, e.g audio/x-mp3. I already implemented some
tricks to get a nice name of the requesting application. I could add a
test if we cannot get a real world name for mime type, but what to do in
this case? Should we point to an Internet site or support platform?

Getting the name of the distro is easy. I could add this to your code
changes afterwards: platform.dist()[0]

You can use the test command in the sessioninstaller source code to
trigger the dialog yourself:

In a terminal session run: ./session-installer
And in a second one: ./test --install-mime-types "audio/x-mp3 audio/x-ogg"


** Description changed:

+ Logic of the mime type handler dialog isn't very good:
+ 
+ * Doesn't handle the case in which we could not find a mime type handler at all
+ * Doesn't handle unknown mime types
+ 
+ --
+ 
  I am using 12.04.
  
  When opening an unknown file type, Nautilus will attempt to find and
  install the needed software.
  
  Currently, the window text is, "nautilus requires to install software to
  open files of the following file type: "
  
  I propose that we change the wording to
  
  (1) Nautilus needs to install additional software to open this type of file:
- (2) Nautilus requires installing additional software to open these files: 
- (3)  Nautilus requires installing additional software to open files of the following type:  
+ (2) Nautilus requires installing additional software to open these files:
+ (3)  Nautilus requires installing additional software to open files of the following type:
  
  or something similar.
  
  I have attached a screenshot

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Title:
  Wording fix for "Install software to open files?" window

Status in “sessioninstaller” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Logic of the mime type handler dialog isn't very good:

  * Doesn't handle the case in which we could not find a mime type handler at all
  * Doesn't handle unknown mime types

  --

  I am using 12.04.

  When opening an unknown file type, Nautilus will attempt to find and
  install the needed software.

  Currently, the window text is, "nautilus requires to install software
  to open files of the following file type: "

  I propose that we change the wording to

  (1) Nautilus needs to install additional software to open this type of file:
  (2) Nautilus requires installing additional software to open these files:
  (3)  Nautilus requires installing additional software to open files of the following type:

  or something similar.

  I have attached a screenshot

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