Re: .hidden files and GtkFileChooser

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 21:22, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> For reference, please see bug #129170.
> 
> - Should both the Unix and Gnome-VFS backends for GtkFileSystem parse
> the .hidden files on their own, or just the Gnome-VFS one?

both, imho.

> - Should gnome-vfs provide this functionality on its own in the future? 
> E.g. would it make sense to add a HIDDEN value to GnomeVFSFileFlags for
> when you get a GnomeVFSFileInfo?  [In this case, should dotfiles be
> flagged as such?]

Yes. It should. I've wanted that for some time, as it would let vfs
backend hide files that should not normally be visible.
I think dotfiles should be flagged as hidden in the file: method.

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