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Nautilus: Show Hidden Files

Asked by papal

I have set Nautilus' show hidden files setting to false, both for the user account and globally via the gconf.xml.mandatory XML file. The problem is that Nautilus still presents "Show Hidden Files" as a workable option in its "View" menu. It only works for that session before it resets, but I don't think it should work at all. I've recompiled Nautilus in the mean time with that option removed, but I am hoping that down the line this will be fixed properly. It appears this bug may even have been part of, or at least suggested for, Google's Summer of Code:

http://code.google.com/soc/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=5B80702342ED312C

I think this would be great for sysadmins to keep most users out of certain directories and files by listing them in a ".hidden" file and to prevent users from accidentally screwing up their dot-file configurations.

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Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) said : 		#1

Thanks for your report, but you should have filed this as a bug and not a question. I have forwarded it there: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/122827

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