Re: Viewing hidden files

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:23, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:12, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 11:53, tc2c1x2p02 sneakemail com wrote:
> > > On 12 Sep 2003, Alexander Larsson alexl-at-redhat.com |nautilus| wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:24, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > > > > I find my self regularly changing whether to view hidden files or not,
> > > > > and doing all this make me wonder why one is not able to toggle this
> > > > > directly from the 'View' menu.
> > > > >
> > > > > This would also relieve some of the initial stress from newbies who
> > > > > haven't figured out the whole deal about "hidden" files :-) They would
> > > > > quickly discover that there's something called hidden files.
> > > >
> > > > Yes. This is on the todo list. There is a patch in bugzilla, but that
> > > > one did it the wrong way (don't remember the details, it was a long time
> > > > since i reviewed it). What we want to do is to introduce a pre-window
> > > > show-hidden-files property and toggle that, not change the global
> > > > setting.
> > > >
> > > How about an icon at the end of the file list with a label like "and x
> > > hidden files..." that you can use to show the hidden files?
> > 
> > A normal menu checkbox like view->hidden files <x> was what i had in
> > mind.
> 
> Would it be possible to make this a Preference option turned off by
> default ?

What do you mean? preference whether the menu item is there? That
doesn't make sense to me. There is already a global preference, which is
off by default. That pref should be changed to be the default setting
for the window-local setting when opening new windows.

> I can probably hack this myself. Alex: can you leave this small easy
> task to me ? I'll do it within a week or two. (hopefully, this WE)

Sure, no problem, but its not actually *that* simple. It requires some
restructuring in how the hidden prefs is handled. Not rocket science,
but not done in a minute.

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