Bruce Bowler wrote: > On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 14:03:31 +0100, Eike Rathke put fingers to keyboard > and said: > >> Of course. And as Mathias pointed out, quite a few people were requesting >> this. It's all easy if you _only_ have a spreadsheet application, but in >> an office suite with several applications things get more complicated. > > Actually, it should be pretty simple... If the software can't determine > with any degree of cetainty what sort of data the file contains, there > is only one viable answer > > ASK THE USER, THEY PROBABLY KNOW > > That's not currently what happens
The problem is that the software *does* know how to open such a file: it opens perfect in Writer! And you don't want to have a dialog asking you wether you want to open it in Writer or Calc for *every* pure text document you open. If OOo can't detect a possible type that matches to the file it does exactly what you asked for: it shows a dialog containing all filters and lets the user choose one. But as I said, that doesn't apply in our case. I think the "trick" using suitable extensions/MediaTypes (and register the Calc text filter for that property) or a command line option to force opening in Calc (both will be available in OOo2.0) will serve the user in the vast majority of possible use cases. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
