Re: File Extension Madness

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 09:25 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> - Warn them (possibly with a 'just this once')
> :This is what gnumeric currently does.

And this is what I'm advocating, and what I'm sure the Gnome usability
guys will conclude.

> It also raises questions of how to display a filename in the save
> dialogs. Should that be
> foo <type == excel>
> or
> foo.xls <type == excel>
> or
> foo.xls <type == by extension>
>
> The last option seems fraught with ambiguity. There are several
> different formats named 'xls' we can pick one of them, but I don't
> really like it. The first option is not terribly pleasant either,
> someone may put in foo.xls themselves, forcing us to guess if they
> some how wanted a file called 'foo.xls.xls'.

For the reasons you mention, it has to be #2.

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- Charlie
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