Allen Pulsifer wrote: > 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?
Ah, fine. I misunderstood you and thought you wanted to change the behavior of "All files". Yes, something like this could makes sense, though I'm wondering if "All documents" is understandable. Anyway, IMHO "All documents" shouldn't be the default filter as then you created a problem for all people that don't use extensions at all or that use files with unknown extensions (e.g. text files with extension "log"). These files then will not be visible by default though OOo could load them without any problems. OOo does not use extensions to decide wether it can load a particular file, it checks the content. Extensions are only a hint to speed up the search or resolve ambiguities. OTOH if we didn't use this "all documents" filter by default the question remains if it makes sense at all. As I understood you wanted to have this filter as a feature for the unexperienced users. But without having this filter used by default I assume that especially these user won't use it. So all in all I think that though your idea makes some sense I don't see how it could be implemented without either annoying a part of the user base or hiding this new filter so that especially the target audience for it will never find it. 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]
