Subject: Re: Suggestion: ugly Hack or subtle hint?
From: Alan Keefer (akeefer@stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 14:27:00 CDT
It's worth noting that, by default, Windows does not show known file
extensions, so anything saved as .rtf on a computer that has Office
installed (where, of course, the .rtf association with Office hasn't been
removed, which I'd assume would be the vast majority of Office
installations) where the file-extension option hasn't been changed will
simply look like normal Word documents. So I would venture to suggest that
as long as you put some wording in the dialog akin to "Save as Word (rtf)",
most novice Windows users wouldn't really care that it was saved as a .rtf
file.
-Alan Keefer
At 04:35 PM 9/14/01 +0100, Alan wrote:
> > > Perhaps the choice of truth?
> > >
> > > "Save as Word (rtf)"
>
>im not hung up on the wording or details, this is not for my benifit
>"think of the users".
>
>Machines with Office2000 already associate .rtf files with office
>(mostly), but that is out of our control and still requires that an
>Abiword user be clued-in. (i used a machine recently that had .txt
>files associated with Word, talk about overkill)
>
>If we could come to some decision and put it to the user list?
>Id really like if there was a poll on the AbiSource Home page (or as
>part of the Weekly news) then we could try and gauge public opinion more
>often.
>
>I think it is about time i started sending people .abw documents and
>telling them to get abiword if they want to view it (or at the very
>least doing it to anyone who sends me DOC or PDF files).
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