"Install additional software" button launches dialogue(s) which refers to Python (2.7) as the calling application

Bug #1084840 reported by Joshua Lock
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
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Bug Description

Ubuntu version information:
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10

Rhythmbox version information:
  Installed: 2.97-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 2.97-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 2.97-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When I click the "Install additional software required to use this format" button in the Preferences | Music window the spawned dialogue boxes all refer to Python (2.7) as the triggering application, i.e:

"Required plugin could not be found

Python (v2.7) requires to install plugins to create media files of the following type: Vorbis encoder"

I'd at least expect the name to be the application name (Rhythmbox), or even better the X-GNOME-FullName key of the desktop file "Rhythmbox Music Player".

These should probably be a separate bug report, but the following issues also stand out to me:

1) the English in the "Required plugin could not be found" dialogue is a little awkward
2) The media files type isn't actually a media file type, but the name of the required software component.

Ideally the "not found" dialogue would read something like this example:

"Required plugin could not be found

Rhythmbox Music Player needs to install plugins to create media files of the following type: Ogg Vorbis but they were not found."

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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