Re: Docs To Go and Abiword

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:50:34 -0500
> From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
> To: r coyne <duckingsnofair@yahoo.com>
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Docs To Go and Abiword
>
>
> On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 16:40 -0800, r coyne wrote:
> > (2) Putting a .doc extension on an RTF file is
> > confusing, though no doubt it does provide a modicum
> > of convenience for some users. How about a compromise
> > like calling it "[filename].rtf.doc", and/or make the
> > menu item for it "...as RTF with .doc extension"?
> > Either or both of these would save the convenient
> > Open/association, while warning users what is going
> > on, so people don't have to keep explaining on this list.
>
> This problem has been lenghtly discussed, and most of us agreed that
> doing this (renaming RTF file as .doc) is cheating

I explained it was not cheating at all, Microsoft have used the same trick
themselves. (I think wordperfect may have also allowed use of the .doc
file extension arbitraritly).

> but we where badged by lot of users that did not understand that :

I badgered you on behalf of users who care not as much for technical
correctness as they do for the "just works" approach we usually favour.

> 1/ MS-Word could open RTF file by default
> 2/ Writing .doc without problem is really hard.
>
> So we took the decision to do that. There is bug in bugzilla about that,
> look for it if you wish.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Sun Nov 14 14:25:35 2004