Import Dialog changed?

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sat Feb 23 13:57:24 PST 2013


Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Even on Windows?
>
> Yes, I think so.
>
>>> Which reminds me, we probably should discuss the possibility of using
>>> an extension of our own.
>>>
>>> "sbf"? "ssfc"? "ssrf"? "surf"?
>>>
>>> Or should we just stay with xml?
>>
>> I see no huge advantage doing that...
>
> I'd like to be able to double-click on a file in the file browser, and
> just have it start subsurface. That *tends* to be easier if you have a
> unique extension, although it's certainly supposedly possible to do
> with a magic file too.

That's a good point.

Subsurface -- .ssrf
or

Subsurface Dive Data File -- .sddf

There are basically no three letter extensions that aren't taken by
several applications. There actually aren't a lot of four letter ones
left, but both .ssrf and .sddf appear not to be taken :-)

/D


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