Filesystem - hiding system folders?

[Jan Claeys]

Op di, 28-03-2006 te 22:37 +1100, schreef Jeff Waugh:
> <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).
> 
> 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).

Why not simply hide the "Filesystem" link to '/' from Nautilus for users
that are not members of the 'admin' group?

-- 
Jan Claeys