hi >> I see what you mean about only loading text files that have been saved >> by the Text Editor. But it's not immediately obvious and the load file >> dialogue does have an All Files(*) option. Perhaps the Load File >> function needs to be limited to Text file (*.txt) files only. >> > > I don't think this is a good idea. Many text files are saved with another > extension or no extension at all, especially on UNIX-like systems. > > Also not that almost all program's file dialogs have the option "All Files", > simply because some (many?) users don't know how to rename a file. > > I think we should add a warning in a sidebar in the next version of the > manual. >
or rename the menu entry as "load text file"... it won't be perfect (for most people an .odt is also a text file...) but at least nobody can't say that he has not been warned :-) ... and at the latest they will notice when they ask here on the list or on irc... ciao a.l.e
