Subject: Re: commit -- [manifesto] no more mangling
From: Ben Hall (bhall@crosskeys.com)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 08:09:13 CDT
A LOT of other Unix file managers use extensions as metadata.. for one,
XFtree, maybe KFM too.
I certainly use the extension as metadata. (I then know to launch Abi.)
If you're going to make it so that Abi doesn't automatically give you
the .abw extension, can an option be added to the prefernces to make
this a default?
Thanks,
Ben
> >
> > I hope I've made my point well, and that this change does not meet up with
> > a lot of resistance. As you can probably tell, I have a very strong hate
> > for filename extensions, originally being a mac user and programmer (heh,
> > I was the one that coded support for determining the file type with
> > file(1) in GNOME's file manager). If there is someone who opposes this
> > change, I would like to discuss it with you, and I will try to listen to
> > what you have to say.
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