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

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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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