On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Jason Hoover wrote: > Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:08:08 -0500 > From: Jason Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Usability] Faded File Extensions > > On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 17:44 +0100, David Christian Berg wrote: > > > Hiding the extension is not always useful. I often need to know, if an > > image is a jpg or a png, or -- even more important -- maybe even an svg. > > All these have a preview and I very much appreciate that. > > So I'd think that hiding the extension should be an option which is on > > by default, just like it is on win or mac. If the extension is hidden, > > the tooltip should show the extension and the sniffed file type. > > Really, the icon should be doing that for you. You should also be giving
Not in thumbnail mode they dont. > the files distinct names, not just relying on the extension for the sake Blame the user, of course it is the users fault. Why didn't I think of that? Isn't the extension part of the distinctive name I have deliberately chosen? I could use .jpe, .jpg, .jpeg, jfif, jps all to describe the same effectively the same file type so my choice of extension is quite deliberate. > of spotting it quickly. Such a case of course is why it'd be an option. > There are no tool-tips in Nautilus AFAIK. > > > As for renaming it should just work as it does right now. I love this > > behaviour! The extension should be shown but not selected, now matter if > > showing extensions is turned on or off. > > Of course. I was implying that. I love it too. > > > I really hate this alert. The interface should clarify, that renaming > > the extension is usually not what you want to do. Hence only the name > > should be selected. It should warn you about not having any extension. > > The dialogue should be OK-> use no extension, Cancel -> reedit the name, > > Use old extension -> uses the extension the file had before. I'd like undo in Nautilus to make it easier to rollback any such 'mistakes' but it is a much harder problem to tackle. > I've had ZIP files get MIME'd as MP3's, so there's little chance that > extensions will be going away anytime within the next (ironic quote > time) 10 years. I'm not exactly a wizard with regular expressions but I've always found file extensions to be extremely helpful. Hrrm, maybe I should slap a Zenity based user interface onto the good old file utility? Might be useful for users who dont like or know the command line. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
