A grid cell is about four words wide and `.CR2` spent one of them saying
something the photographer already knows: in a RAW library every frame ends
the same way, so the extension distinguishes nothing while taking room from
the part that does. The caption elides from the end under pressure, so an
extension can push the digits that actually identify a frame off the visible
part of its own label.
Dropped in the view, not in the model. `LibraryCell::name` keeps the true
filename and `remote_path` the full path, because both are used to find the
file again and a stem is not a filename.
The case it is wrong for, recorded rather than discovered later: a library
holding `IMG_1234.CR2` beside `IMG_1234.JPG` now shows two cells captioned
`IMG_1234`. They remain two rows with two thumbnails and two entries in the
info panel, and a RAW+JPEG pair is usually one photograph anyway — but the
caption alone no longer separates them.
Only the last dot goes, and only when something precedes it: `2026.08.23-a.dng`
keeps its dates, and `.hidden` keeps its leading dot, because that dot is how
the name starts rather than an extension.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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