Re: File | Open behavior (bug #1818)

["David Fallon" <dfallon ucla edu>]

> Since we offer File | New and File | Save As, I think the correct
> response is to refuse to open an invalid file (display a "File Not
> Found" error and return to the file selector); this is what my fix
> does.  The alternative, though, is to say that we're emulating the
> emacs behavior and treat an open on an invalid file as a request to
> create a new file with that name; I think that is at best unintuitive
> for the average desktop user, especially when faced with the New and
> Save As options.

A much more intuitive response is to actually explain what's going on -
"File not found" doesn't match with the fact that they just selected the
file -
a *much* better error message would be "The file "filename" is either not a
calendar file, or is corrupted. Please try opening a different file."

> Comments are appreciated.
>
> -Russell
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> Russell Steinthal Columbia Law School, Class of 2002
> <rms39@columbia.edu> Columbia College, Class of 1999
> <steintr@nj.org> UNIX System Administrator, nj.org
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