odd behavior while create a new file -> unwanted extension added

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Thu Jan 9 17:05:26 UTC 2014


It is in appropriate in Linux / Unix to think for a  user. 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. 

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 :-(


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