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 <[email protected]>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:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:07 AM > > To: [email protected] > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List > archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
