file-roller : suggest program to install upon unrecognized format
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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file-roller (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
If I try to open an unsupported archive format (eg RAR) with file-roller, an
error just tells me that the RAR format in not supported. Thus, I might just
think it is a missing feature in the program, although the solution (install the
appropriate package) is pretty easy.
Should't file-roller just provide a little more information in these error
messages, maybe by suggesting which packages to install in order to be able to
open the desired format ? I don't know how relevant this is, since it is
basically distro-based (name of the packages... ?).
Or a simpler solution : since zip/unzip, rar/unrar (nad maybe others) are fairly
small packages, shouldn't file-roller just depend on them, so that you get a
complete, full-featured tool for any format, out of the box ?
We have quite a few bugs on different apps about this. rar is a "Suggests" of
the package by example but it's not obvious to user to use this field to figure
that.
Having a dialog asking if you want to install the corresponding package when
required would be really nice.