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

[Sebastian Heinlein]

hello mpt,
but how to handle the case of multiple mime types or gstreamer codecs? generally not all applications can support all mime types or codecs. so in this particular case you need to show in the dialog which application supports which mime type. and perhaps which mime type is not supported add all. the test script has an option to search for multiple codecs. if you uninstall the gstreamer bad and ugly plugins you should get an idea and how this is handled currently.


Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> schrieb:

>Thanks Sebastian! Currently my sketches in
><https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwarePackageOperations#searching> show only
>Mime types only, not human-readable names for types. I thought that if
>the OS doesn't have any software installed for a type, probably it
>doesn't know a human-readable name for the type either. After all,
>/etc/mime.types includes only Mime types and their corresponding
>filename suffixes, not human-readable names. (Maybe there is a list
>with
>human-readable names somewhere else?)
>
>It would be nice to show the human-readable name as well, if we know
>it.
>So, I've defined a "file type string" for use in the UI, being the Mime
>type, plus the human-readable name in brackets if known.
><https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwarePackageOperations?action=diff&rev2=27&rev1=25>
>Does that look good to you?
>
>Apart from that string, though, whether we know a human-readable name
>for the Mime type shouldn't make any difference to whether -- or how --
>we offer to install an application for that Mime type.
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Title:
  Wording fix for "Install software to open files?" window

Status in “sessioninstaller” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 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: "
  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/131265442/Screenshot%20from%202013-02-14%2011%3A51%3A02.png

  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

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwarePackageOperations#searching>: "When
  asked to find an application to open an invalid filetype (e.g.
  “unknown”), SessionInstaller should present an error alert, with
  primary text ‘Ubuntu can’t search for applications to open
  “{filename}”, because the file type is not recognized.’, and secondary
  text “File type: {file type}”."

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