Re: hiding files and directories



On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 00:27, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> Is there any way to hide some files in Nautilus other than by using the
> Unix "the first character of the name is a dot" semantic ?
> 
> I'd like to hide the "iPod_Control" directory of my iPod. MacOS X hides
> it properly (it's where the songs are stored, and doesn't present much
> interest on its own).
> 
> I would probably also use that to hide directories in my home.
> 
> Would adding some bits to GnomeVFSFileFlags be the way to go (along with
> fixing the different modules, obviously) ?
> 
> And we could add the metadata bits to Nautilus on top of that
> (nautilus_file_[gs]et_metadata).

Hmm...  could the same metadata could be used to implement "hide this
icon" on the desktop?

Oh, and a l33t dude could somehow figure out how to read the "hidden"
flag from a mounted FAT filesystem too...

Ross
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