Re: File open dialog: Where is my tab extension
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 19:15 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:53:05PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:40:21PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > >
> > > > The point is to hide features that only power-users will use. Let me
> > > > know when you see someone on a Mac or Windows using tab completion,
> > > > right? ;)
> > >
> > > All Windows boxes I have used were setup to enable tab completion.
> > > Heck, the trick was shown to me by an MSCE college at the previous job
> > > and is dead easy. One Windows registry key to change and bingo.
> >
> > Eh, was that meant to be funny? If you change registry keys in order to
> > configure stuff, you qualify for being a 'Windows power user' I guess.
>
> Because you have to modify a reistry key to enable it, doesn't mean that
> you have to be a power user to enable it.
Nor does it imply that it is a feature that _should_ be reserved for
power users. The fact that it is hard to discover or enable on Windows
has no bearing on whether it is something only power users can
comprehend and use.
/Jens
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