Hi,
on 'real' operating systems file extensions aren't necessarily needed as
the operating system provides automatic file content detection by itself
(eg. /etc/magic). Inside OpenOffice.org in case of text files (eg.
ASCII) there's the only exception I know because if a text file uses the
file extension .csv then this file is opened in Calc and otherwise
Writer will care about text files. I can second your opinion that the
removal of an 'auto-extension' is not useful because files can be
overwritten by accident but in my opinion the user should have the
choice to create files without an extension.
Kind regards, Joost
As can be seen in our user lists and elsewhere the inadvertent removal
of "auto-extension" is a source of severe user problems including data
loss. I know several examples where users have overwritten their
original document with a pdf they have created. There are also numerous
examples where users couldn't reopen their documents from the desktop or
even didn't find them at all because they accidently saved them without
extensions. So removing the check box basically was a good idea.
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