prizrak
June 19th, 2006, 09:23 AM
I recently ran into a wall in Dapper when I tried opening a .rar archive. The default install does not handle .rar files at all. I did find the rar and unrar packages in the repositories and installed them, file-roller even auto configured itself to use them as needed but it did give me an idea.
You know how in Windows when you come across an unknown file type it gives you a choice of associating some program with it manually or searching the web for a program known to handle such a file. I thought about something similar for Ubuntu, I think it would be a pretty neat improvement if Ubuntu would give an option to search the repositories for the needed program and present the user with a list of suitable applications along with their description and an option to install on the spot.
What do you guys think of the idea, I will attempt to create a poll (first time for me so may not work) and if the feedback is positive enough I'll submit it as a feature request into Launchpad.
You know how in Windows when you come across an unknown file type it gives you a choice of associating some program with it manually or searching the web for a program known to handle such a file. I thought about something similar for Ubuntu, I think it would be a pretty neat improvement if Ubuntu would give an option to search the repositories for the needed program and present the user with a list of suitable applications along with their description and an option to install on the spot.
What do you guys think of the idea, I will attempt to create a poll (first time for me so may not work) and if the feedback is positive enough I'll submit it as a feature request into Launchpad.