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

Hi all,

FYI It is not present in the Mac version either.

Cheers,
Jaron


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Christoph Noack <christoph@dogmatux.com>wrote:

> 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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