• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I’ve seen people deleting those ugly *.exes and *.mp3s from their files. Hopefully they learned to not to, but I’ve heard cases who didn’t.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      If they’re that dumb leave the extensions on and let their eyes glaze over it like they would anyway. Hiding the extensions doesn’t seem beneficial in any way.

      • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        if you designed the system so that the extension is part of the functionality, then you have to hide it away so that your users don’t accidentally delete or modify the extension thus rendering their files useless (within said system)

        it’s a fundamental shell design flaw: one should never allow users to modify data critical to functionality. And it’s not something that can be changed because almost all applications depend on this