Filesystem - hiding system folders?

[Josué Alcalde González]

El mar, 28-03-2006 a las 22:37 +1100, Jeff Waugh escribió:
> <quote who="Chanchao">
> 
> > That's a heck of a lot.. I know a lot of this is legacy unix stuff, but
> > thinking outside the box for a bit: is it really necessary to have that
> > all out in the open, visible to any newbie user?
> 
> Like Apple have done with Mac OS X, we could create .hidden files and put
> them in one of our desktop-only packages. The /.hidden file could list the
> ugly, non-useful *nix directories that don't serve a purpose in a graphical
> file manager (dev, boot, etc).
> 
It will not be too useful if .hidden is only used in nautilus.
.hidden files are not used by gtk-open-dialog for example.
Also, customs icons are not used in gtk-dialogs.

> Nautilus supports .hidden files already, so it would just be a matter of
> finding the right place to put them, and the right things to hide (I doubt
> it would be necessary to have much more than the single /.hidden though).
> 
> Making nice directory names for the other stuff is harder, and not quite so
> useful, because we can't really make the dramatic changes Apple have done
> here without tossing away things like FHS compliance and so on. Plus, our
> developer platform doesn't work the same way, so if we made aliases from
> say, lib -> Libraries, it wouldn't be useful anyway.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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