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

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am 2013-03-19 09:37, schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas:
> Sebastian, sorry, I don't understand the question. Are you saying the
> API lets you search for an application that can open multiple Mime
> types? E.g. "Find an application that handles both audio/mpeg3 and
> application/ogg"? If so, what is the use case for that? Thanks.

Indeed. You can request a handler or several handlers for multiple mime 
types at once. I also cannot imagine a good use case for requesting 
several mime type handlers at the same time. But that is the given 
design of the PackageKit API that we need to implement here.

The same is true for multimedia codecs - and more obvious: You e.g. 
need a handler for the audio stream, the video stream and the container 
format. In a cornor case all three handlers are located in separate 
packages. There is a small logic in session-installer that pre-selects 
the package or the best packages that provide all handlers by default.

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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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