[Bug 87640] Re: "Add/Remove Applications" does not find Totem codecs

[Duncan Lithgow]

** Description changed:

  If Totem (2.17.92) is missing a codec, it gives a message like:
  
- "The playback of this movie requires a MPEG-2 System Stream demuxer
- plugin which is not installed."
+ ---------------------------------------
+ "The playback of this movie requires a MPEG-2 System Stream demuxer plugin which is not installed."
+ ---------------------------------------
  
- But if I search "Add/Remove Applications" (no 'about' available, Feisty
- Herd 4) for "MPEG-2" or "MPEG-2 System Stream demuxer plugin" I get
- "There is no matching application available." which we know is not true
- - so the problem is the search function not responding well to Totems
- message. (It should return "GStreamer ffmpeg video plugin" and others)
+ But if I search in 'Applications > Add/Remove Applications' for words
+ and phrases from the Totem message, like "MPEG-2" or "MPEG-2 System
+ Stream demuxer plugin" I get "There is no matching application
+ available."  Now I know this is not true because if I search for just
+ "MPEG" I get what I'm looking for. So the problem here is that the
+ search function is not finding the correct packages needed by Totem and
+ suggested in the failure message.
+ 
+ I see two ways around this:
+ 
+ 1. 'Add/ Remove packages' creates specific links for keywords mentioned in Totem, like 'MPEG-2'. This could be a fast way to get around the problem, but a poor solution.
+ 2. 'Add/ Remove packages' changes the summary text of the relevant packages so they mention the keywords used by Totem. This seems to me like the best option.
+ 
+ Either way the developers of Totem, developers of 'Add/Remove
+ applications' and Canonical should talk about a way of coordinating
+ their efforts to avoid these kinds of problems.
  
  Could this regarded as a "collaboration" bug?

** Changed in: gnome-app-install (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: gnome-app-install => totem

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"Add/Remove Applications" does not find Totem codecs
https://launchpad.net/bugs/87640