[Qgis-user] Possible bug?

[Patrick Dunford]

Yes it does look like the support for extensions in some of the Linux 
libraries is a bit illiterate.  It would seem like since extensions are 
not actually required in Linux that the library creators have not fully 
understood how to handle them. Certainly notice issues with Gimp.

On 23/07/23 21:34, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-User wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 23 July 2023, 5:39 pm Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-User, 
> <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>     Hi Roxo,
>
>     You are right, I can confirm this with a very recent build of QGIS:
>
>     - with extension we ask for confirmation of overwriting
>     - without extension we silently overwrite an old file
>
>
> It's actually an operating system (well, gtk library) issue. The same 
> thing happens in other apps too on that same platform.
>
> Nyall
>
>
>     Please file an issue (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues), this
>     seems easily fixable.
>     See
>     https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/bugreporting.html#bugs-features-and-issues
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Richard Duivenvoorde
>
>     On 7/22/23 20:21, Fernando M. Roxo da Motta via QGIS-User wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >    Hi all,
>     >
>     >    Today I was exporting some QGis projects as PNG images
>     > (project>import/export>export map to image).  At certain point I
>     made
>     > a mistake and repeated the name of the previous map, and QGis
>     happily
>     > overwrote the previous image, without asking before. I tried to
>     repeat
>     > the action giving the full name of the file (map10.png) and QGis
>     asked
>     > for confirmation.    The difference was that the first time I
>     gave jjust
>     > a name, without the "extension" .png.
>     >
>     >    It seems that even if QGis will give the default "extension"
>     to the
>     > filename, it does not verify the prior existence of the file
>     after it
>     > attach the "extension".
>     >
>     >    This was in a QGis 3.26.0 on Linux Xubuntu 20.04.  I know
>     that both
>     > the QGis and system are kind of old, but if this "feature" is
>     present
>     > in current versions it can be cumbersome.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >    Roxo
>     >
>
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