Control hidden folderfile settings 145

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:59:37 GMT, mayayana staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Um. This is imprecise and wrong. I think you mean "all directories and files that start with a . are hidden", not "all program subfolders". The convention that all files-directories that start with a . are hidden from a user's normal view is really, really old. KDE's Konqueror at whatever file manager you use, and there's always "ls -a".

Applications may make it easy or difficult to find hidden files in their file open dialogs. It all depends on which toolkit was used. GTK 1 seems to make it difficult to browse hidden files-directories by default. Of course, you can always enter the filename or directory name Hidden (F8). YApplicationMV.

I don't think it's currently possible to set things up so that "directory .crud is hidden, but directory .stuff isn't hidden" is true in Konqueror. ICBW. Check your file manager's docs for details.

Yep. Again, ancient convention says that if an application needs to store per-user config settings, it either makes a directory named "~-.application-" and stores stuff in there, or makes a file called "~-.application" and writes settings there. This is supposed to avoid confusing the users with lots of visible "application.conf" files cluttering up their ~ . It isn't a hard and fast rule; some apps write their settings to visible files while others have a more complex hierarchy (~-.kde-share-$APPNAMEfor KDE apps.) HTH,

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