[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#315263: Directories with known extensions shown as files

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2005-06-21 18:24:31 +0300 Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:

> Package: gworkspace.app
> Version: 0.7.0-1
> Tags: forwarded
> 
> [If you reply, please keep the CC to nnn@bugs.debian.org]
> 
> Try the command
> 
> mkdir ~/Foo.txt
> 
> Then GWorkspace will show this directory as a regular file, not as a
> directory.  If you double-click over it GWorkspace will try to open the
> directory using the default text editor.
> 
> Anton Zinoviev

GW can't do anything for this. If you create the directory from a terminal, for NSWorkspace "Foo.txt" will be a plain file.
But I've added an alert that shows up if you try to rename the directory "Foo" in "Foo.txt" with gworkspace. (This is the behaviour on OS X)