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> All true. But note what the user wants according to these definition: > he wants different icons for audio vs. video. Yes, he doesn't know > the difference between `.mp3` and `.ogg`. But that's precisely why > windows hides the extensions from him by default. If he does know, he > would have disabled this hiding. Exactly. The main reason for different extensions from

> Good point. File extensions normally represent groups of related > formats. I don't propose differentiating everything (e.g. standalone > FLAC from Ogg FLAC). I do want as a minimum to tell apart these > categories: > > - Lossy audio: Vorbis, Speex. But speech is useful to distinguish > from music, so making Speex separate is not a bad idea. > - Lossless audio:

> > That might be true. However, the main problem I see with this is > > that by using only the codecs as the extension you make it > > impossible to filter for audio/video without knowing all the codecs. > > You cannot easily do file searches without specifying all those > > extensions either. > > > Nor can filter audio/video without specifying all of `wma`,

Well, I only recently subscribed to this mailing list and do not know all the history of this extension debate (I passed up on reading the hundreds of messages that seem to have been written about this topic). I just wanted to make one quick point: from my experience, the average user does not know about file formats, only about content (my experience stems from working for ashampoo

Hey Looking at the Fedora ML there is some commotion about a Press Kit [1] they are constructing. I am thinking about doing something like this for CentOS. Now comes my question, what do people think should belong in such a kit. Do you think this is needed? Cheers for your help, Didi [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_press_kit -- Hoffman...

...so I start trying to explain why. Eventually these people don't stop, and others join my position. And that's when these few people start taking anything said they disagreed with and attribute it to me. There's plenty to dislike about me than to make up stuff. ;-> > Much of the commotion is related to the manner you > communicate and interprete what people say, But it doesn't excuse them for taking what _others_ said, even if it was defending my position, and saying I did. So as I said, that's what I hate about these lists and such meta-discussions. It totally resul...

Hi Damien, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> writes: > Thanks, but I don't think we're going to merge this one because I'm > somewhat worried that some systems we currently build on do not support > the -n syntax. Conversely, AFAIK everything* supports -number. Michael Forney said that he was trying to run on a system that did NOT support head -number and tail

From: Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> > I roll my eyes when I hear how good and great and all-virtuous > RedHat is, On GPL. That's all. On GPL. IBM is praised while HP, Red Hat and Sun are demonized. Companies have their agendas, and we need to be _cautious_. But one thing remains: Stallman's Moral Delima Which means that the only thing that matters in the end is

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