Subject: Re: Save file format
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 19:35:19 CDT
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Paul Warren wrote:
> I seem to recall that this has been discussed before, but having just
> accidentally sent an important document in Abiword format with a .rtf
> extension, I thought I'd mention it again.
>
> Would it not be more sensible to make "Automatically Selected" the
> default file type when saving a document? IMHO, being able to save a
> document in one format whilst the extension suggests another without
> at least a confirmation dialog is wrong.
>
I did exactly the same thing. I agree we should use automatically detected
as default. If no extension is given it is saved in abiword format.
Cheers
Martin
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