Please integrate with software-center to search for new apps
Bug #860536 reported by
Michael Vogt
This bug affects 9 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The current "right-click/open with/other application/find applications" could be improved by just offering
to launch software-center with "--search mime:text/html" (or whatever mime-type).
It should probably also a bit less nested ;) Like: "open-with/Find available applications" or even a top-level item for this in the context-menu. I leave the exact location to the designers. This would offer all the benefits of s-c like screenshots, reviews etc.
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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The "Open With" > "Other Application" dialog already has a "Find applications online" [sic] button, which opens a broken dialog listing applications. (Broken because it doesn't actually let me install any of them.)
I think a solution to this bug involves (1) replacing that dialog with a mode of Ubuntu Software Center and aptdaemon (so that it knows to try opening the file once an application is installed), and (2) altering the dialog that appears when you try to open a file where Nautilus has no idea what to open it with. Unfortunately I can't evoke the latter dialog -- everything unknown tries to open in Geany or Gedit.