So how does Linux know what program to open a certain file with? I will soon install Linux on at least one of my machines, so it would be interesting to know. I just would love to get rid of that file extension shit, which annoyed me since about 1998 or so…
By the way, there are some cases when file extensions are needed in Linux too, aren't there? For example .c, .g++, .h, .o, .tar etc. Doesn't an OGG file in Linux need the .ogg extension? Johnny Andersson 2007/3/6, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Harold Fuchs wrote: > 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. > Quite so. Linux doesn't need the extensions. I just include them for the benefits of those using Windows. Before switching to Linux, I used OS/2 for many years. It also doesn't need extensions. Only brain dead MS software needs extensions. It's amazing how the world's leading(?) software company is so backwards, compared to what was available elsewhere 15 and more years ago. Whenever I use Windows, I feel as though I'm working with one hand tied behind my back. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
