RE: File selection dialogs and hidden files

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

there does need to be a place to configure the ability to viewing of .files,
but it should be defaulted to off... The reason they are dot files is to
hide them... what good is showing hidden files by default  :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Brandon S. Allbery [SMTP:allbery@ece.cmu.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 14, 1999 4:32 PM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: File selection dialogs and hidden files 
> 
> In message <199904142315.TAA03620@condor.ec.rhno.columbia.edu>, Russell
> Steinth
> al writes:
> +-----
> | Is it just me, or does the standard file selection widget not display 
> | hidden files?  This is particularly bothersome in cases like the 
> +--->8
> 
> It's not just you.  It also appears to be a Gtk+-ism (as opposed to a
> GNOME-ism).  And it's really annoying.
> 
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