Re: [Usability] Chabada's Suggestions

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

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.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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