On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: [...]
Also hidden files are much harder to access under Windows than dot files under Unix, so I'm not sure it would really be better for the user.
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So we have a problem. I, as a _user_, sure want the ability to turn the dot files into hidden files. Current behaviour bothers me to no end, and I'll bet you a dollar in small change I'm not alone. So maybe you want to make this configurable, but who is gonna turn it off?
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What you want is not so much to have files starting with a '.' to have the hidden DOS file attribute set, but not to see them in open dialogs.
Currently the same dialogs are hiding file extensions and this is bothering me to no end too. In that case what needs fixing is the open dialog. Maybe it is the same for files starting with a '.'?
I'm assuming this is all done using common dialogs so then what we need is: * a flag to tell the common dialog to not hide file extensions * another flag to tell it to hide file extensions
And ideally these flags should be settable from the 'open' dialog itself (extra button, item in the right-click menu on the file list) because we don't really have an ubiquitous 'Explorer' (ok we have winefile but is it ever used?).
Does the above make sense?
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