Hello Mathias, There may be a misunderstanding about the suggestion.
If you do a File | Open in OOo, the File Type displayed by default is "All files (*.*)". You can manually select "Text documents", "Spreadsheets", "Presentations", etc., or you can select a specific file extension, such as "OpenDocument Text (*.odt)". The suggestion is not to list all file extensions supported by OOo. The suggestion is to add another type grouping, "All Documents", that would be similar to "Text documents", "Spreadsheets", "Presentations", etc. When selected, this would cause the File chooser dialog to display all document types supported by OOo, i.e., it would display Text documents + Spreadsheets + Presentations + .... In that way, it would be similar to All Files, except it would not display files with extensions OOo cannot open, such as .pdf. Does that make sense? Allen > -----Original Message----- > From: Mathias Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [dev] File | Open default file type > > > Allen Pulsifer wrote: > > > An alternate suggestion (if it is easier) is have File | > Open default > > to "All documents" rather than "All Files (*.*)". The > reason is that > > novice users are clicking on document types such as .pdf's > and getting > > a confusing error message. OOo should not by default list > unsupported > > document types in the File | Open dialog. > > > > This suggestion was entered as > > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74295 > > For me the biggest problem with this approach is that OOo > supports quite a lot of file types with a lot of different > extensions. It can be confusing to show "*.*" (you can't show > all supported extensions here) but display only some of the files. > > Perhaps the problem can be solved by providing a better error > message. Something like "OOo does not support this file type. > Please try to open the file from your desktop" or something else. > > Ciao, > Mathias > > -- > Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer > OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: > http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only > rarely read other mails sent to it. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
