common file dialogs

[Mike Hearn]

Hi,

Is there a reason that:

a) The Wine open/save dialog boxes don't show or follow symlinks and 
b) They show dotfiles?

I seem to recall a discussion on wine-devel way back on the topic of
dotfiles, but a quick archive search didn't turn up much of use. At the
very least I think it should be a pref, wading through lots of dotfiles
in your home dir makes it much harder to open files with wine, and
obviously non-technical users will wonder what is going on with all
these stranges folders that I never made......

[Fabian Cenedese]

> I seem to recall a discussion on wine-devel way back on the topic of
> dotfiles, but a quick archive search didn't turn up much of use. At the
> very least I think it should be a pref, wading through lots of dotfiles
> in your home dir makes it much harder to open files with wine, and
> obviously non-technical users will wonder what is going on with all
> these stranges folders that I never made......

Don't forget that the users are still Linux users, even if they use a
Windows program :)

bye  Fabi

[Marcus Meissner]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:56:28AM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a reason that:
>
> a) The Wine open/save dialog boxes don't show or follow symlinks and 
> b) They show dotfiles?
>
> I seem to recall a discussion on wine-devel way back on the topic of
> dotfiles, but a quick archive search didn't turn up much of use. At the
> very least I think it should be a pref, wading through lots of dotfiles
> in your home dir makes it much harder to open files with wine, and
> obviously non-technical users will wonder what is going on with all
> these stranges folders that I never made......

Check out the config file:

[wine]
;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
;"ShowDotFiles" = "1"

Ciao, Marcus

[David Laight]

> At the
> very least I think it should be a pref, wading through lots of dotfiles
> in your home dir makes it much harder to open files with wine, and
> obviously non-technical users will wonder what is going on with all
> these stranges folders that I never made......

maybe it'll make them clean up the mess in ~
mine gets full of .prxh0622a, .twmc0524a and .xsma0478b files
(probably because I shutdown from within X)

David

[Mike Hearn]

Thanks. I wonder why I didn't see them before....

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:56:28AM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a reason that:
> >
> > a) The Wine open/save dialog boxes don't show or follow symlinks and 
> > b) They show dotfiles?
> >
> > I seem to recall a discussion on wine-devel way back on the topic of
> > dotfiles, but a quick archive search didn't turn up much of use. At the
> > very least I think it should be a pref, wading through lots of dotfiles
> > in your home dir makes it much harder to open files with wine, and
> > obviously non-technical users will wonder what is going on with all
> > these stranges folders that I never made......
>
> Check out the config file:
>
> [wine]
> ;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
> ;"ShowDotFiles" = "1"
>
> Ciao, Marcus

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On January 31, 2003 07:06 am, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Thanks. I wonder why I didn't see them before....

Actually I wonder why you are seeing the dot files in the
first place -- they should be hidden, unless they are
explicitly enabled in the conf file.