Thanks Sebastian! Currently my sketches in
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwarePackageOperations#searching> show only
Mime types only, not human-readable names for types. I thought that if
the OS doesn't have any software installed for a type, probably it
doesn't know a human-readable name for the type either. After all,
/etc/mime.types includes only Mime types and their corresponding
filename suffixes, not human-readable names. (Maybe there is a list with
human-readable names somewhere else?)

It would be nice to show the human-readable name as well, if we know it.
So, I've defined a "file type string" for use in the UI, being the Mime
type, plus the human-readable name in brackets if known.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwarePackageOperations?action=diff&rev2=27&rev1=25>
Does that look good to you?

Apart from that string, though, whether we know a human-readable name
for the Mime type shouldn't make any difference to whether -- or how --
we offer to install an application for that Mime type.

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