[GRASS-dev] tickets to solve for GRASS 6.4.2 release

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Markus Metz
<markus.metz.giswork at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Regarding the import/link dialogs, I had a look at GdalImportDialog in
> gdialogs.py. Maybe the easiest would be to replace the format selector
> with a simple text field where the user can enter a file extension
> which will then be used to filter files, plus a button to apply the
> filter.

Yes, something like in the "downloadthemAll" Firefox extension would be neat.

> Otherwise the import dialog must come up with a list of all possible
> file name extensions associated to a GDAL/OGR format.

... which are sometimes hard to guess since people invent all kind of
unusual extensions for regular formats...

> Bearing in mind
> that e.g. Linux does not need any file name extensions and extensions
> can be completely arbitrary, the import dialog can not possibly be
> clever enough to cater for all possibilities.
>
> Just a suggestion,

A nice one.

Markus