Re: Hide extensions [Was: Nautilus]

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

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