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

[Sebastian Heinlein]

I am currently working on a 1.0 release of aptdaemon. Afterwards I will
have a look at sessioninstaller.

There is a very akward cornor case: We could find an application that
handles the file type but we don't know the file type  :) Because
knowning the type means to have a human name for the file/mime type
only. Should we show the technical definition of the type, e.g.
audio/x-mp3 instead?

The PackageKit API allows to specify more than one mime type. So we
could end up with the situation in which we don't know only one of the
types.

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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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