Mattias Engdegård wrote: > > >> Anyway, if the user finds that an application doesn't try to load a file > >> whose name ends in .tga as a Targa file (or worse, attempts to load it as > >> a Group 3 fax file), then the same user will assume that the application, > >> or its programmers, or both, are stupid beyond belief. And rightly so :-) > > > >I would prefer a program that loads a group3 Fax file even if it is > >named .tga > > I cannot believe that such a situation would be more common than attempting > to load a properly named Targa file. You can always set the format manually, > but the automatic mechanism should be optimized for the common case. If a properly named Targa file is not correctly loaded by GIMP, then another plug-in (for example faxg3) uses a file magic that fits this targa file. So which plug-in should load the file ? The one that has the correct file magic or the one that handles the correct extension ? I would prefer the plug-in with the correct file magic. Maybe the file magic of the faxg3 plug-in is too weak ? -- Peter Kirchgessner WWW: http://www.kirchgessner.net e-mail: peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
