Re: Hide extensions [Was: Nautilus]

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Jan de Groot wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 10:36 +0200, 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.)
>
> The hide extensions feature in windows really is horrible. The other
> side that is annoying in windows: when you turn it on, want to rename a
> file, it selects the whole filename, including the extension. You enter
> a new name and it deletes the extension if you don't take care. In
> nautilus, when renaming a file with extension, the extension is not
> selected by default. This is the middle between showing the extension
> and the usability of not showing it. I think we should keep it this way
> and not even think about hiding the extension of known files.

What about hiding the selection, but having it show up (unselected) when
you rename a file?

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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