Recently there have been a discussion between the nautilus & GIO maintainer, and the ntfs-3g maintainer to implement a way to not show files in nautilus if they are hidden. Currently only files starting with a "." are hidden, as you can see in the GIO _g_local_file_info_get() if (basename != NULL && basename[0] == '.') g_file_info_set_is_hidden (info, TRUE); Of course, since we often have a multi-OS & multi-filesystem environment, it is a big limitation to consider hidden files only those files. There are some use cases in which we need a wider view of hidden files: - ntfs shared partitions & external disks - fat32 shared partitions & external disks - fat16 usb keys/multimedia devices Both the maintainers state that it's not a good idea to patch GIO to check which filesystem is hosting the file, and then ask it using the specific driver whether the file is hidden or not. Everything should be transparent for GIO, which should only make one call to a standard interface, that all filesystem drivers shall implement. Is it possible to consider this request? The discussion is in this moment hosted in the nautilus mailing list with this subject name: "nautilus & hidden files". Thank you -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
