Le jeudi 22 décembre 2005 à 12:14 +0100, Murray Cumming a écrit : > > On Iau, 2005-12-22 at 10:36 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > >> 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.) > > > > Extensions are very much a windows property rather than a non-windows > > tradition anyway. In terms of confusion the large number of attacks > > based on extension hiding clearly indicate that it does confuse users to > > a large degree and in dangerous ways > > But doesn't Nautilus look inside the file to get the real MIME type (after > showing a quick first guess by looking at the extension)? So wouldn't it > be less of a problem for us?
It does so only when you select the file or double-click on it, IIRC. This could be enough to help, but I admit I really hate this "hide extensions" thing :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
