IDE Open dialogs should not show hidden files
lazarus / 8-Other

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dodi · 2008-11-15 11:57

The open project dialog shows hidden files and directories, starting
with "." on Linux systems. This is a bad idea, when the home directory
is filled with such hidden directories from other applications.

At least the default view should exclude hidden directories from file
open/save dialogs.

DoDi

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Phil · 2008-11-15 13:28

Quote from: "dodi"The open project dialog shows hidden files and
directories, starting with "." on Linux systems. This is a bad idea,
when the home directory is filled with such hidden directories from
other applications.

At least the default view should exclude hidden directories from file
open/save dialogs.

DoDi

This is an issue that seems to plague Unix-type systems. Windows has
hidden files but doesn't use them the way they're used on Linux (and
even on OS X) to hide "." configuration files and folders.

On OS X, Lazarus does not show hidden files in its dialogs.

Probably what you suggest is a good idea, either an option to
enable/disable this behavior. Another approach is a separate menu
command - for example, the Mac TextWrangler text editor has a File |
Open Hidden command for just this purpose.

Perhaps you could log this as a bug in Mantis.

Thanks.

-Phil