Re: Hide extensions [Was: Nautilus]

[Pascal Potvin <pascal potvin gmail com>]

The wmv and asf problems isn't really a gnome problem. The problem is
in the /etc/mime.types file. There were a discussion about this on the
freedesktop.org xdg mailing list. What you can do for now, is change
the file /etc/mime.types to remove the line "video/x-ms-asf asf asx"
(or comment it), and add to the line video/x-ms-wmv the words " asf
asx". It should correct this problem. And for the next release of your
distribution, just write to the mime-support package maintainer, so
that this change is done for everyone.

2005/12/24, Chipzz <chipzz ulyssis org>:
> And what about all those incorrectly named .wmv files I have to rename
> to .asf because otherwise nautilus refuses to open them?
>
> kr,
>
> Jan
>
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, 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.)
> >
> > --tml
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