On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Markus Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding the import/link dialogs, I had a look at GdalImportDialog in > gdialogs.py. Maybe the easiest would be to replace the format selector > with a simple text field where the user can enter a file extension > which will then be used to filter files, plus a button to apply the > filter.
Yes, something like in the "downloadthemAll" Firefox extension would be neat. > Otherwise the import dialog must come up with a list of all possible > file name extensions associated to a GDAL/OGR format. ... which are sometimes hard to guess since people invent all kind of unusual extensions for regular formats... > Bearing in mind > that e.g. Linux does not need any file name extensions and extensions > can be completely arbitrary, the import dialog can not possibly be > clever enough to cater for all possibilities. > > Just a suggestion, A nice one. Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
