And what about all those incorrectly named .wmv files I have to rename to .asf because otherwise nautilus refuses to open them?
kr, Jan On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, 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.) > > --tml > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > Chipzz AKA Jan Van Buggenhout -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UNIX isn't dead - It just smells funny [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Baldric, you wouldn't recognize a subtle plan if it painted itself pur- ple and danced naked on a harpsicord singing 'subtle plans are here a- gain'." _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
