On Jun 26, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:21:12 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> >> The converse of that is the friend of mine who renamed something.bmp >> to something.gif and wondered why it didn't get converted. > > Automagically converting the file after the user renames it to another > graphics type would be a very sensible thing to do, wouldn't it? > ...
I don't think so, because then you would still have the "renaming a file in a particular way causes a confirmation alert" problem, except this time the alert would be asking about a (usually) lossy file conversion instead of merely a rename. -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
