Re: nautilus & hidden files

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 19:11 +0200, yelo_3 wrote:
> Hello, I would like to have a discussion with you about hidden files.
> Nautilus considers hidden the files starting with a dot.
> But this is not correct if, for instance we are viewing a ntfs filesystem.
> (I don't know if other cases exist for other filesystem types.)
> 
> I think that using libntfs-3g it is possible to detect if a file is
> hidden, and treat
> as so in nautilus.

This is in fact already half-done. Since 2.22 nautilus picks up the
hidden attribute from gio, so all that is needed is for gio to pick up
the hidden attribute from the filesystem. However, I don't know how to
do this for e.g. ntfs.