On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 09:26 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > 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
I think a large part of the problem is that windows doesn't hide extensions everywhere. The users can be tricked because they expect to see extensions. Mac OS X uses extensions and hides them by default in all programs. I haven't heard of anybody running a directory named exploit.jpeg.app. Since convincing every desktop application developer to follow a hide extension preference would be impossible, adding one is probably a bad idea. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
