It would appear that on Mar 13, James Knott did say: > Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > It would appear that on Mar 13, Richard Detwiler did say: > > > > > Good question -- not sure why anyone would ever have the need or desire to > > > save a file w/o the file name extension. > > > > > IMHO any user who does have such a special need should be capable of using > > a shell command to rename the file after OO.o is done writing it. > > > > That said, some new users might feel secure seeing visual evidence that > > the appropriate file extension will automatically be added. > > > The only problem with that is Windows will often hide the extension. So, > where you need it most, you don't see it.
About windows we agree. (Though a wise win user can configure it to stop hiding the extensions) But as far as my understanding was that up to the point where I responded to this sub-thread about the durned checkbox Nobody (including myself) was suggesting we make the default be to omit the extension that windows so badly needs. What I was suggesting was that if (for example) somebody were to do a save as to word format and type a filename of "sillydocument" which was then automatically saved as sillydocument.doc instead. But they had an unusual special need that it should be otherwise, then that unusual special need would (to me) imply that they were capable of fixing this outside of open office such as for example using a *nix command shell: $ mv sillydocument.doc sillydocument It kind of went without saying that the windows user would be unlikely to be in a position to have that particular special need. The problem that (I thought) was being discussed was that if one ever unchecked that box (being personally a klutz with the mouse I could do this by accident without even noticing) Then for all future "save as" dialog boxes until one noticed and rechecked said box, the default would be to omit it unless you typed it in yourself as part of the filename. I tend to favor the concept of setting a persistent default of automatically using the extension. So that unchecking the box only works for the instance of the "save as" dialog in which it was unchecked. While I don't actually need the file extensions, I find them visually useful. However I routinely verify that a save as file did in fact, save as expected, where expected, by switching to an xterm where I use mc to quickly show me the contents of the target directory. So if the checkbox gets unchecked in MY copy of OO.o I'll discover it the first time I do a save as. Then I'll promptly do a: $mv sillydocument sillydocument.doc Then I'll go recheck the checkbox (just in case). Which means that, speaking for myself, this isn't much of an issue anyhow. -- | --- --- | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook <o> <o> | J(tWdy)P ^ | <<[email protected]>> /---\ "bla bla bla..." | \___/ "...and bla..." At least I know my mouth is running, I just can't find the off button! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
