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

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 15:34, Joergen Scheibengruber wrote:
> 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.

We consiously decided to keep .hidden an expert feature, and not expose
it in the user interface. Being able to hide and unhide a file is a very
strange and uncommon operation. 

The real solution to problems like yours is to somehow get the hidden
attribute from the windows filessystem and hide hidden files.

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