Re: patch that implements a ~/.hidden-all feature

[Joergen Scheibengruber <Joergen Scheibengruber wh-hms uni-ulm de>]

Am Mo, den 17.05.2004 schrieb Alexander Larsson um 12:30:
> On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 22:25, Joergen Scheibengruber wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just wrote a little patch that implements a "global" .hidden-file
> > (~/.hidden-all). This is basically the same as .hidden, only that it's
> > content applies to all folders.
> > 
> > For the patch and more details:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142553.
> > 
> > It would be nice to get some comments and I would of course appreciate
> > if it could get included :-)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jörgen
> > 
> > PS: I'm not on the list
> 
> I'm not sure this is useful enough to be of general interest. Also, the
> global coverage of something like that strikes me as being a bit
> dangerous. It could cause unexpected issues.
> 
> Also, the patch reads the file synchronously on every directory read,
> causing unnecessary slowdown.

Hmm, yeah, I think your right. Especially the last point is ugly, I
know. But it was the simplest way to create the patch, and I didn't want
to spend to much time on it, without knowing if it gets aproval ;-)

However, I just had an idea that would make the whole patch somehow
dispensable: What about simply adding an "hidden"-option to the
properties-window of a file? This would then create/edit an .hidden file
in the directory.

Regards,
Jörgen