Re: [Usability]File renaming/extensions

[David Lazaro <david lazaro eresmas net>]

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 06:49, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> When pressing F2, the whole filename will be selected, including the
> file extension (if there is any). But in 99% of the cases I will just
> want to rename the filename, not the extension. Now I can either rewrite
> everything, including the extension, or have to manually select/delete
> the part of the file I want to rename (and that is slightly easier to do
> using the mouse). Unconvenient for me, potentially dangereous for a new
> user (it doesn't even warn when changing or omiting the extension).
> My suggestion would be to select only the name part of the file without
> the extension when pressing F2 (or the rename menuitem) and/or to show a
> warning dialog when the extension is left out with the possibility to
> reattach the old extension or confirm to remove it.
> What do you think?

That you are right about this being slightly wasteful. What about hiding
extensions (like everybody else, I must add)?

Greetings,

David