On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 20.01.2014 16:07, schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> >>> Perhaps a greyed-out drop-down list of file formats that only becomes >>> activated when the *.* filter is chosen. >> >> Thinking about this some more: I wouldn't object to a "post-processing" >> step, whereby if the user actually selects a filename without an >> extension, or with an unrecognized extension (something I'm claiming is >> going to be a rare event), we put up a dialog asking him to select from a >> list of possible formats, with the option of cancelling. As in >> >> " >> 'foo': this file is >> >> * delimited text >> * an octave file >> ... >> " > > Yeah I was going to ask about Octave, too, since it isn't clear to me if > there really is a spec about its datafile extension.
Octave and JMulTi are potential problems. (BTW, is there still a case for handling JMulTi data?). > > Could the extra dialog be avoided by another selection item in the file > open dialog? (Greyed out if not needed.) IMHO that would be better than > multiple windows popping up one after another, but that's (a) my taste > and (b) not sure if it's feasible. It's technically feasible but IMO it would be "fussy", given that we're talking about a corner case. In general, yes, an integrated dialog is nicer than a sequence of dialogs but I think a second dialog is justified in this case. Allin
