GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 752285
unclear message on missing mime type
Last modified: 2018-01-24 16:57:57 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. download or create a file with a mime type unknown to your gnome-software package database. On Fedora you can download a 3DMF file from http://www.artifice.com/3d_gallery/Maybeck_Studio-night.3dmf.sit 2. try to open this file (e.g. from nautilus). Now file-roller will try to open the file, displaying an error message: Could not open this file type There is no command installed for StuffIt archive files. Do you want to search for a command to open this file? [Cancel] [Search Command] 3. press [Search Command]. Now gnome-software will open a window: Unable to Find Requested Software (sad smiley) Unfortunately, the unstaff you were searching for could not be found. Please see <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKit_Items_Not_Found#Missing_Package">this website</a> for more information. This is misleading: The English text shown in gnome-software should be different because it is unclear what "unstaff" is. I think the first sentence should be improved to something like this: "Unable to find the application »unstaff« for opening files with MIME type »application/x-stuffit«." Furthermore there is no indication which application requested this support. The sentence above could be improved to: "The application »Files« needs support for MIME type »application/x-stuffit«. This support is provided by another application, »unstaff«, which could not be found." See also: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746794
I think the idea was to keep the geeky mimetype out of the UI. Do things work better with 3.18?
(In reply to Richard Hughes from comment #1) > I think the idea was to keep the geeky mimetype out of the UI. Hm, any other idea how to give the user more data so he can search for a useful application on the internet? But anyway, that wasn't the core problem. > Do things work better with 3.18? No, exactly the same as reported above.
Why is this bug marked as NEEDINFO? What do you want to know?
Removing the NEEDINFO status.
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