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Re:C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX by roc on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @02:40PM (#867358)
At the same time: extensions are a poor way to communicate with the user, largely arbitrary and very fragile.

If they were going to make a change in the name of consistency, they could have done better.

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Re:C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX by CrLf on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @04:09PM (#867533)
It used to be the case that the file's icon represented the file's type. But with icon previews, that's no longer the case, so the extension is the only visible means of conveying the file type.
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Re:C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX by moe on Thursday October 08, 2009 @07:36AM (#868782)
They could overlay a small line of text or sub-icon over the actual icon, though.
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