Suggest packages to support unknown file types
Registered by
Matt Zimmerman
If a user attempts to open a file for which no application support is available, we should check whether support is available by installing a new package, and if so, offer to install it for the user.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Colin Watson
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Michael Vogt
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Ian Jackson
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for edgy
- Implementation:
- Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Matt Zimmerman
- Completed by
- Ian Jackson
Whiteboard
Suitable version is now in edgy; further performance improvements will probably be deferred to edgy+1. -iwj 7.9.06
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