Re: Hide extensions [Was: Nautilus]

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> 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?

I'm sure there are times when only the extension can be used to specify
the MIME type, so we might need some "Change file type." context menu
item. The resulting dialog would need to be quite clever.

Murray Cumming
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