On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 10:36 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > to 2005-12-22 klockan 08:24 +0000 skrev Shane O'Connor: > > > IMHO if we want to get people to shift from Windoze then we're gonna > > have to ensure the move is painless as possible. That doesn't > > necessarily we have to mirror windoze behaviour but we should definitely > > avoid making the default for gnome more cumbersome... > > Is there BTW any usability tests, polls, or whatever, that would report > the usefulness of Windows Explorer's "Hide extensions for known file > types" that by default is On? > > (Personally I find it an absolutely horrible default setting and > invariably turn it off on all Windows boxes I use, but I am almost > capable of seeing the reasoning behind it... and can certainly believe > it if somebody tells me that it in fact has been shown to reduce > confusion among novice users.)
The hide extensions feature in windows really is horrible. The other side that is annoying in windows: when you turn it on, want to rename a file, it selects the whole filename, including the extension. You enter a new name and it deletes the extension if you don't take care. In nautilus, when renaming a file with extension, the extension is not selected by default. This is the middle between showing the extension and the usability of not showing it. I think we should keep it this way and not even think about hiding the extension of known files. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
