Sven Neumann wrote: > Right-click and select "Show Hidden Files" from the menu. Wow! I wouldn't have tried that in a million years! I thought obscure features only came in the form of obscure keystrokes: I stand corrected. > Yes, there should be a way to globally enable this. That's not the point, I wouldn't enable it even if there was a way. You only need to open a dot-file once in a while. The point is, when you actually need to, how do you expect people to start poking at the file dialog and 'discover' this feature in another file's context menu? Michael L Torrie wrote: > I believe this option needs to be in each dialog box and should be > easily accessible. Exactly as Firefox was doing in its custom file chooser, before using GTK2's one: a simple checkbox in a corner of the dialog, reading «Show hidden files and directories». That and pressing '.' (see my first reply.) Toby -- Signed/encrypted mail welcome. GPG/PGP Key-Id: 0x15C5C2EA _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
