On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jason Corfman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll throw in a feature request/improvement of my own, since the > conversation title is rather unambiguous. > > Unlike most (not all) LibreOffice feature requests that are inspired by > Microsoft Office, mine is inspired by GIMP. > > I was working with a .xcf file in GIMP the other day, and it came time for > me to export it. I went to File->Save As and changed the name from file.xcf > to file.jpg and hit enter. Without me selecting ".jpg" from the list of file > types, I got the jpg dialogue boxes (flatten image? Image quality, etc.), > and it saved as a .jpg file, not as a .xcf file with a .jpg extension. Other > than changing the extension on the file name, I didn't tell it to change the > file type, it just knew. > > If I tried opening file.odt file in LibreOffice and did a save as and saved > it with the name of file.doc without also changing the file type, I'd get an > ODF file with a .doc file extension. > > Is there anyway of utilizing GIMP's "Save As" file extension recognition? > That way, we would probably get less document.odt saved with a .doc file > extension. > > (Feel free to replace .doc with the favorite non-ODF file extension of your > choice. I'm not trying to start a Microsoft file format flame war, I'm just > using examples that I use.) > > I should add that I don't want to change the default file format. I like ODF > as my default. But occasionally, I have to save files in non-ODF format. > > Jason Corfman
If you use the KDE file dialogs for libreoffice it does this already. I think it is a standard feature in KDE file dialogs. -Todd -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
