https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54949
Roman Eisele <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever Confirmed|0 |1 Summary|Cannot open a docx file |Cannot open a .docx file |when the extension is |when the extension is |changed to doc |changed to ".doc" --- Comment #3 from Roman Eisele <[email protected]> 2012-09-16 13:09:51 UTC --- REPRODUCIBLE with any LibreOffice version since 3.3.0 until the newest master builds (LOdev). All versions behave exactly like Haim Kilov described. The question is: is this a bug? (a) On the one hand, one could argue that LibO must honour the file extension, and that, if the the file extension is wrong, LibO should not even open the file. Especially “power users” which are used to manipulate file extensions for special purposes (e.g., changing the extension of a .odt file to “.zip” for un-zipping it), might prefer this view. (b) On the other hand, a “normal” user would expect that software is a bit smarter about file types, especially in this case, when LibO is able to recognize the correct file type when there is no extension at all (as it was common on earlier Mac OS versions). Especially long-time Mac users are used to the automatic recognition of the right file type and can’t believe that a letter more or less in the file name prevents the file from being opened. And “normal users” might think that “.doc” and “.docx” are very similar, so that each of these extensions should work (a “normal user” does not know how extremely different these file formats are!). I don’t know how to find an authoritative answer here. Just an idea: what does MS Office do? Can it open .docx files with “.doc” extension (and the other way around)? Maybe we could follow its example then ... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
