Hello, Sorry you are having an unpleasant experience.
What I understand of your email, Gnumeric seems to be acting correctly. The first file appears to have an extension, that is the file ends with a dot and followed by a small number of characters (one). Gnumeric sees the dot-three, takes it to be an extension, recognizes that such an extension is unusual for the xml format gnumeric uses, and therefore warns the user. The second file does not appear to have any extension and therefore Gnumeric adds the correct extension for this file type. This behaviour has been examined extensively and the developers consistently have felt that having gnumeric silently add the extension is the best compromise. If you feel differently, please feel free to voice your opinion in the best place to bring about change. File a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org, but add some detail as to what you would expect in each situation. If you also discuss other corner cases, your bug is more likely to generate useful discussion. However, please realize that the developers have thought extensively about this situation, and have come to agree upon the current compromise. They are therefore unlikely to change their mind without a well presented, logical, and comprehensive bug report. Also, I'd encourage you to drop the "this is the most broken behaviour I've ever seen" tone since that's likely simply to turn off those who make the decisions. best of luck, adrian On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:49 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Gnumeric exhibits a troubling behavior when saving files. The > following two files received different treatment: > > 1. masterfile.3 > 2. masterfile-3 > > File #1: received a message that the extension does not match the file > type. > > File #2: saved with the .gnumeric extension,without complaint or > message. > > Is this a gnome behavior? I think not, because other programs do not > do this. This seems to me to be a derrier-garde bug, not a feature. > Reminds me of years gone by when I used windoze. > > I really like to use various ploys in writing long filenames that I can > remember, usually with multiple suffixes. In NO OTHER program, in the > ten years of using GNU/Linux, has this behavior been encountered. May > I request either assistance and explanation, or, better, to do away > with this terrible "bug". > > Alan Davis > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
