Am 29.02.2016 um 19:15 schrieb Istvan Gabor:
One of the strengths of linux that it doesn't require extension to identify file type. Why don't some linux applications make use of this opportunity?
File extensions often mean nothing on Linux. Most file dialogs have an option to show all files. There are a few applications, especially ones which also exist on Windows, which are more picky. They configure the file dialogs to just show specific files types, or, in the case of Open/LibreOffice, they replace the standard file dialogs with own versions. That sucks. The solution here: Just change the extension, so you can open the file. It's a cheap workaround that always works, and any other solution would be complex, brittle and expensive in comparison. Or you can try to start the application from the command line and feed it the file name there. That will allow you to pass any name and there won't be any extension filtering ... unless you have configured your shell to suggest only "valid" file types. In that case, you have to copy&paste the file name since tab completion will fail. It would be great if we had a file system like Mac where each file has to specify it's type in the metadata (along with the file name). But that's another can of worms. Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org