On 05/03/07, Richard Detwiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just a couple of questions/comments about this checkbox since it seems like it's tripped up a few people recently, in terms of saving files: First of all, why is this even an option? Under what circumstances would one NOT want the file extension to be added? Second, assuming it does in fact need to be an option, can this be made the default, so that if a person does nothing, the file extension will be added automatically? For example, on install, have the check box checked by default, as opposed to unchecked by default.
<snip> I think at least part of the reason that "automatic filename extension" is not the default is that OO runs on platforms like Unix and Mac that don't use filename extensions and whose users are, in the main, wholly ignorant of that whole scheme and wouldn't want their directory listings cluttered up with them. In any case, on my XP system, the "out of the box" behaviour of both OO 2.0.4 and 2.1 was that the "automatic extension" box was checked. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
