Hi Joost, Joost Andrae wrote:
> 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. Saving without extension is a bad idea for a platform independent application where the still most used platform relies on them to detect the file type. You will start getting problems when you want to use this document on another system. I can find a lot of features that may be useful for some users in some cases. But I don't consider saving files without extensions as important and OTOH the drawbacks are obvious. As this isn't a development related topic I recommend to move the discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED] But as 2.4 deadline is approaching we also must find a fast and simple solution (or live with the current state until 3.0). And that's what we are currently looking for anyway. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
