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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kControl - File associations
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2001-05-30 9:17:28
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On Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2001 09:47 David Faure wrote:

> Extensions look ugly IMHO. Especially the KOffice ones.
> "KWD" ? How unpronounceable is this, compared to e.g. "DOC" ?
> The point now, is that you can name your files the way you want. With .kwd,
> or .doc, or .myfile, or .kword, etc. (ok, just not .jpg :). Isn't that
> better ?

the only problem I see with that, is publishing those documents on remote 
servers, e.g. ftp. There we don't have any magic-detection and rely on the 
extension -> if there is no extension, we're in trouble.

Cheers,
Carsten Pfeiffer
 
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