software-properties Additional Drivers tab informational text enhancement

Bug #1976302 reported by Little Girl
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Bug Description

The Kubuntu installation process offers this check-box on the second screen:

"Install third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware, Flash, MP3 and other media" box while installing Kubuntu as another form of manual installation."

If you check that box, your video drivers are handled for you by a collaboration between Ubuntu and NVIDIA.

The "Additional Drivers" tab in Software Sources then displays these messages when you open it:
 * "This device is using a manually-installed driver."
 * "Continue using a manually installed driver"
 * "No proprietary drivers are in use."

It wasn't obvious to me that "manually-installed" included those of us who checked the little check-box during the installation of the operating system to have our video drivers automatically installed and managed by Ubuntu and NVIDIA.

I would like to suggest that the first two messages in the "Additional Drivers" tab get changed to something like this to make it obvious that they include us:
 * "This device is using a manually-installed or third-party driver."
 * "Continue using a manually-installed or third-party driver"

Or if you'd like to word it differently:
 * "This device is using a manually-installed or automatically-installed driver."
 * "Continue using a manually-installed or automatically-installed driver"

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