Allen Pulsifer schrieb:
Yes, that sounds good. I would change it a little bit and
offer showing the filter dialog (that also needs a redesign
BTW). Only offering to open as text is not enough. Especially
text files are detected quite reliably.
But as in most cases where OOo fails to
Thanks for your effort, Allen. However I'm afraid that your
proposal to default to an application specific filter will
not be accepted. The issue list you have presented in your
initial mail already contained some issues that have been
closed for that reason.
We see OpenOffice.org as an
Hi Allen,
Allen Pulsifer schrieb:
I can certainly see how other people might view it differently, and I would
be happy to have the UX team look at it.
As I could see on the discuss list of the ux project they are already
involved. Great! So I will redirect further discussions to the ux-list.
Yes, that sounds good. I would change it a little bit and
offer showing the filter dialog (that also needs a redesign
BTW). Only offering to open as text is not enough. Especially
text files are detected quite reliably.
But as in most cases where OOo fails to detect the file it
*is* an
Allen Pulsifer schrieb:
OTOH if we didn't use this all documents filter by default
the question remains if it makes sense at all.
Yes, I agree with you. If All documents is not the default then there
might not be much benefit. A better approach might be to give the user an
error or
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
OTOH if we didn't use this all documents filter by default
the question remains if it makes sense at all.
Yes, I agree with you. If All documents is not the default then there
might not be much benefit. A better approach might be to give the user an
error or warning message when attempting
Allen Pulsifer wrote:
An alternate suggestion (if it is easier) is have File | Open default to
All documents rather than All Files (*.*). The reason is that novice
users are clicking on document types such as .pdf's and getting a confusing
error message. OOo should not by default list
=74295
Allen
-Original Message-
From: Allen Pulsifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:20 AM
To: dev@openoffice.org
Subject: [dev] File | Open default file type
The following enhancement requests are all related:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues
An alternate suggestion (if it is easier) is have
File | Open default
to All documents rather than All Files (*.*).
This suggestion was entered as
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74295
Wouldn't it be consequent to rename the 'file open dialog'
to 'document open
The following enhancement requests are all related:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10048
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19918
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=67163
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70421
(and for a counterview, see
in
the File | Open dialog.
This suggestion was entered as
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74295
Allen
-Original Message-
From: Allen Pulsifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:20 AM
To: dev@openoffice.org
Subject: [dev] File | Open default
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