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@exerceo it’s a better default. Because you are just one arrow key press away from what you want.
If the cursor was in that place before the .png as you suggest, then people who wanted to replace the entire file name would need to do much more than just one key press. -
@Lensflare not much. Just a shift+home
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@netikras while it may be technically correct, I bet that the vast majority of users don’t know about that, so for the average user it will be significantly more effort to do.
A good rule of thumb when developing applications with a good user experience is to assume that your user is t...
When users are doing whatever they want
Like pull-to-refresh, auto-selecting the file name in "save as" dialogues is a design trend we are perpetuating without questioning its usefulness.
The "rename" feature of file managers and the file name fields in "Save as" dialogues and screenshot tools automatically select file names without the ending, expecting the user to want to replace it.
It would more sense to place the cursor between the file name and the ending ".png".
I can't remember the last time I replaced a file name. I almost always rename files to add a comment or time stamp at the end.
Adding a comment after the time stamp, for example, "Screenshot at 2024-02-04 12-04-37 progress bar.png", makes more sense than replacing the file name. A file name with a time stamp is more easily searched.
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