[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 97080] FILEOPEN: Need broader filter for delimited text files ("Text CSV" only includes *.csv)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97080

--- Comment #38 from Matt K <mattkse at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #37)
> (In reply to Matt K from comment #36)
> 
> There are several possible approaches here. And the most user-friendly one
> seems to be to simply /add/ *.* (see comment 18) or some specific extensions
> (txt in comment 0; tsv in your comment 36) to the text filter extension
> list, so that the dialogs show all files. Another one (see comment 9) would
> require users to know that they may enter new mask - not a common knowledge.
> The one from comment 2 IMO would be a bit of overkill...

Do you mean add *.* to every text filter list (there are many, such as "Text
documents" and "Text (StarWriter/Web)")?  Doing that, I think the issues raised
in comment 3 would still exist; should we also address those issues?: (1.)
opening a file in Calc with the "Text (*.txt)" filter sending the file to
Writer (2.) Allowing the user to save a delimited text file with any extension
rather than just .csv.

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