[HN Gopher] Linux History: How Dot Files Became Hidden Files
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       Linux History: How Dot Files Became Hidden Files
        
       Author : rrampage
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2022-03-05 11:57 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | 8bitsrule wrote:
       | Speaking of Linux files, there's one feature I'd like to see in
       | the GUI.
       | 
       | In Linux, when you drag a file to a folder and hover, you've got
       | one option: drop it into that folder. Another OS I used would
       | wait for a second, then 'open' that folder so that you could drop
       | your file into a sub-directory ... or drill down further by
       | hovering over another. I wish!
       | 
       | Old habits die hard. Maybe that can already be done, or there's
       | an app or setting I've missed. If so, GREAT, I could quit
       | mumbling every time.
        
         | Symbiote wrote:
         | "the" GUI? There are at least 10 desktop environments in
         | (relatively) common usage.
         | 
         | The behaviour you describe is implemented in KDE / Dolphin.
         | 
         | (I'm not familiar with Gnome's file browsing application.)
        
       | eternityforest wrote:
       | Dot files are one thing about Linux that seems to be truly
       | timeless.
       | 
       | We might not see them directly anymore, we have GUI settings
       | tools, but I can't think of any better way to manage local app
       | settings.
       | 
       | Any kind of registry model seems to always require you to learn
       | even more stuff than just some dotfiles.
       | 
       | Normally old UNIX stuff doesn't really fit the modern way of
       | doing things, but dotfiles are still standing.
        
       | voakbasda wrote:
       | One problem that I have experienced recently with GitHub is that
       | it hides these sorts of hidden files. This means that you cannot
       | properly review the repository before checking it out. Or am I
       | missing some hidden feature equivalent to 'ls -a'?
        
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