Edgy - "Missing" Directories

[Scott]

On Sunday 08 October 2006 06:46 pm, Constantine Evans
(constantine at evanslabs.org) spake thusly:

> Scott wrote:
>> I'm not sure what's happened (I suspect I've inadvertently changed a
>> setting somewhere  --  but then...maybe not) but when I open Nautilus
>> and move to the top of the directory tree, I only see two
>> directories. Those being "home" and "media".
>> 
>> Everything else is missing.  I have the same problem in KDE with
>> Konqueror.
> 
> This is a new "feature" that kubuntu installs for you. It puts quite a
> few toplevel directories in /.hidden, so that konqueror and nautilus
> think that they are hidden files and don't display them. 

Oh for crying out loud!

> Personally, I 
> think this is a bad thing to do. It certainly manages to confuse quite
> a few people, probably more than it simplifies things. It will make
> giving instructions to people very tedious (A:"Start gedit and edit
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf." B: "I don't have an /etc directory"), and make it
> very hard for users to understand instructions written for any
> standard GNU/Linux distribution.

Threre's got to be a hack to undo this mess.

-- 
        Scott
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