Re: Patch and feature request for toggling display of hidden files

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 22:56, Jamie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've had enough of the poor handling of hidden files and folders in
> Nautilus and as its been driving me nuts in the last few days I have
> decided to code a nice easy way of toggling the display of hidden files
> in individual folders (as opposed to having to constantly set and reset
> a global pref)
> 
> My feature request and patches (you need both) for it are at:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143239
> 
> When folders are first opened they adopt the global pref for showing
> hidden files however individual folders can now be toggled by pressing
> CTRL+H or by clicking on the Show Hidden Files menu item in the View
> menu to alternate between showing/hiding hidden files.  
> 
> Hopefully these patches will be accepted cause I can't live without
> them!

We've long wanted to do this, however part of the reason its not been
done yet is that its a little more complicated than your patch. We want
the state to be related to the window, not the view. So, if you change
view, or browse to a location using another view, the hidden setting
isn't forgotten.

Also, we probably want to group the show backup prefs with the hidden
toggle, like we do for the prefs dialog.

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