RE: [libreoffice-design] Save As file format redundancy

Hi Daniel, hi Jared,

I'm having a LibreOffice 3.3.1 on Ubuntu with Gnome specific file
dialogs - it only states "ODT Text Document (.odt)".

Do you use Windows? If yes, then it might relate to how the entries of
this drop-down are created by the operating system: the first string
(see above) being the one by LibO, the second part added by Windows.
Okay, this is just a guess and doesn't excuse such weird
behavior ... :-)

Cheers,
Christoph


Am Dienstag, den 22.03.2011, 12:52 +0000 schrieb Daniel Merker:
> Unfortunately, I think in those cases you will have some redundancy, but I do agree that the 
> listing of the file extensions at the end ise a bit much. The second set of parenthesis should be 
> removed. As a programmer, I know the star is technically important; with that said, I think most 
> users naturally understand that the extension is placed at the end of a file (and LibreO codebase 
> knows that too). Therefore, I would recommend the following to reduce redundancy:
>
> ODT Text Document (.odt) (*.odt) => be changed to => ODT Text Document (.odt)
>
> -Daniel Merker
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Meidal [mailto:jmeidal@worldimpact.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:07 AM
> To: design@libreoffice.org
> Subject: [libreoffice-design] Save As file format redundancy
>
> Is it necessary to list the file format extensions twice in the drop down list of file formats 
> when in the Save As dialog box?
>
>
> e.g. ODT Text Document (.odt) (*.odt)
>
>
> is it really necessary to list "odt" twice (or even thrice!)?
>
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> --Jared
>
>
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