[Fedora-livecd-list] missing filetypes for 2 files on LiveCD

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Oct 16 00:51:57 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 08:30 -0400, Nelson Strother wrote:
> As of f8t3, the files GPL and README have no filetype extension.
> For unlucky users on non-Linux operating systems where files with no
> filetype have been configured to be swallowed by e.g. a database
> program, or a game as a saved level, this could lead to puzzling
> results.  For the lucky users, attempting to read either of these
> files is likely to bring up an "open with ..." dialog where they
> select which program should attempt to interpret these files.  For the
> non-technical users who may be most likely to need to read some of
> this information, such a choice may be overwhelming.

The names are the exact same as they are on the main distro CDs where
they've been that way for ages.  And I'd like to keep the similarity.

Jeremy




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