Bug#435022: nautilus: Invoke gnome-app-install when no application known for file

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 28 juillet 2007 à 18:01 +0200, Julian Andres Klode a écrit :
> > Instead, I'd like to see this integrated in libeel's "run with
> > application" dialog; available packages should be added to the list with
> > an option to install them.
> 
> That sounds good, but I think it would result
> in too much duplicated work.

Not necessarily. Libeel already gets the list from gnome-menus, and AIUI
it would only be a question of passing the app-install-data path to
search for other applications.

Installing the application would then be done by running directly
gnome-app-install.

> Simply adding a clickable textlabel with "Search for software"
> which starts gnome-app-install would be better.

That sounds fine at first, but keeping libeel's open with entry would
make the menu confusing, and removing it would mean losing its
functionality. Furthermore, other applications using libeel wouldn't
benefit from this improvement.

> Or having gnome-app-install listed in the applications list
> as "Search other applications..."

Yeah, an additional button in the dialog would definitely be the
simplest implementation. I don't like the idea of another step until the
installation, but it's also not something you do every day.

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