A lesson to me. Don't respond to mailing lists when my brain feels like mush.
I apologize for misunderstanding the gist of this thread. In Dolphin the create file function is dependent upon standard mime types. You can always rename the file if you have a specific function for the txt file. That is crt or csv or whatever.
But when you create a "text" file it is normally understood as a txt file.
Thats how things have evolved. If that sounds lame... well you'll have to take it up with the rest of the world.
:/
Eli
On Thursday 09 January 2014 18:34:15 Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 09.01.2014 18:05, schrieb Eli Wapniarski:
It is in appropriate in Linux / Unix to think for a user
????
it is *not* it is the *Apple* way to override the user and not the Linux one if i want the Apple way i go out and buy a Mac
it is appropriate in Linux / Unix that *the user* thinks and
if I enter the complete filename already *with* the extension it's completly ludicrous that a second extension is added and to make it as laughable as possible the .txt is not predicatable aded, for some extensios yes and for others not
If a user wants to create a file without an extension then that's their prerogative. If they do then they can give it any extension they want.
and for random extensions you need to rename the file after you created it - the rename dialog is smarter and selects only the basename while with CTRL+A you select the complete name including the extension
On Thursday 09 January 2014 03:00:55 Reindl Harald wrote:
KDE 4.12, Konqueror
context menu -> create file -> plaintext -> "testfile" fine -> a file with the name "testfile" is created
context menu -> create file -> plaintext -> "testfile.crt" WTF -> a file with the name "testfile.crt.txt" is created
context menu -> create file -> plaintext -> "testfile.key" WTF -> a file with the name "testfile.key.txt" is created
this is *not* microsoft windows i thought :-(