Bug 243583

Summary:	When no file handler is installed, an unhelpful "couldn't display" message gets shown
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	7	CC:	triage, tsmetana
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Description n0dalus 2007-06-10 04:56:58 UTC

Description of problem:
When opening a file with no application handler installed, nautilus shows an
error 'Couldn't display "$filename".'. This dialogue could be improved a lot.

- Talking about 'displaying' a file doesn't make sense with things like audio files.
- The message makes no distinction between nautilus not recognising the file
type and there being no application installed to open it.
- The dialogue doesn't suggest any possible applications that could be installed.
- The dialogue has no window title.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nautilus-2.18.1-2.fc7

Expected results:
If the filetype is not recognized, the dialogue should say something like "File
type not recognized".
If the filetype is recognized, but there is no program installed to open it, it
should say "No program is installed to open files of type '$type'." A really
good addition to this would be to list a few Fedora packages that could be
installed to open the file. This would need to be maintained somewhere, perhaps
in the same place Gnome gets its mimetype data from.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 12:59:05 UTC

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:31:46 UTC

Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we 
are closing this bug. 

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