"Can't start sound-juicer" error messages unhelpful
Submitted by Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
Link to original bug (#566119)
Description
Currently the error message that shows when sound-juicer can not start due to not having access to the giosink gstreamer plugin is very unhelpful. All it says is 'The plugin needed for file access is not available, Please refer to the documentation.'
This means nothing to the user. Ideally, it should say what specific plugin it is missing and where you would normally get it from. Also telling you to look at the documentation isn't very helpful as you aren't sure what documentation it is referring to. It's complaining about a plugin, so does it mean the documentation for plugins? Sound-juicer itself? Gstreamer? Who knows? And regardless of what it actually means, you still don't have any idea where that documentation is.
Perhaps a better error message would be:
'Sound-juicer could not be started because the plugin required for file access (giosink) is not available. Please refer to the [link to open sound-juicer docs]sound-juicer documentation[/link] for more information.'
The term 'file access' is also a little vague, if the plugin is required to write to files (ie: the output ogg files or whatever you are encoding to) then perhaps it should say so to stop you wondering about cdparanoia or device file permissions, etc.
Other information:
Version: 2.25.x