| Summary: | Provide user-friendly term instead of raw MIME type text in app search for handlers for file type | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] Discover | Reporter: | Justin Zobel <justin> |
| Component: | discover | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | aleixpol, kde, kdedev, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version First Reported In: | 6.4.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/commit/0aff12d2b58bb8a15cee6643331c0f363751e98a | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | 6.6.0 |
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| Attachments: | Screenshot | ||
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/blob/master/data/freedesktop.org.xml.in?ref_type=heads#L1884 Shared mime info knows this type as "Bittorrent seed file" This is a reasonable suggestion. Changing to wishlist since this is a feature request, not a bug. A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/1199 Git commit 0aff12d2b58bb8a15cee6643331c0f363751e98a by Aleix Pol Gonzalez, on behalf of Taras Oleksyn. Committed on 15/11/2025 at 10:18. Pushed by apol into branch 'master'. Updated Discover to use user-friendly term (MIME type comment) instead of raw MIME type when running with --mime M +10 -0 discover/DiscoverObject.cpp M +1 -0 discover/DiscoverObject.h M +3 -1 discover/qml/Navigation.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/commit/0aff12d2b58bb8a15cee6643331c0f363751e98a |
Created attachment 184929 [details] Screenshot SUMMARY I downloaded a torrent, but I didn't have any torrent application installed, so I clicked find torrent app in Discover. However, once it opened, it had technical jargon that may confuse users. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Have no torrent app 2. Download a .torrent and try to open it 3. Use the option to find an app to open it OBSERVED RESULT Screenshot EXPECTED RESULT User-friendly terms Operating System: Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.16.5-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7600 Not sure how we can automatically get a friendly name from 'applicaiton/x-bittorrent'. If there is no user-friendly name info somewhere that these map to, we may have to make our own. If not easy we could change it to 'Applications that can open "torrent" files.'