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Bug 334667 - Warning users when they are going to rename a file/folder to a hidden one
Warning users when they are going to rename a file/folder to a hidden one
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.13.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-15 16:43 UTC by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
Modified: 2018-07-13 16:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 2006-03-15 16:43:26 UTC 
They add a dot at the beginning of a filename/folder. The file/folder is still visible. But next time (or Ctrl-R) that file will become invisible. Nautilus should popup a warning, stating that adding such a dot will make files/folders hidden.
Comment 1 Christian Neumair 2006-03-15 16:49:06 UTC 
Thanks for your bug report!

Did you trigger this functionality accidentally or observe that somebody did this?

CCing usability team.
Comment 2 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 2006-03-15 17:44:03 UTC 
I did. Although I tried on purpose :)
Comment 3 Calum Benson 2006-05-03 16:04:18 UTC 
Yes, sounds like a good idea.  You'd probably want an alert something like:

<big><b>Create Hidden File?</b></big>

Filenames beginning with periods[1] are hidden
from view in the file manager.  Renaming this
file to <new filename> will cause it to be hidden.

You can show all the hidden files in a folder by 
selecting Show Hidden Files from the View menu.

                                 [Cancel] [Rename]

Of course, you should only see this warning if View->Show Hidden Files isn't currently active.  My only concern would be that it might get annoying after you'd seen it a few times, but we really don't do "don't show this again" warnings in GNOME, so not sure if there's a good solution to that.

[1] Or full-stops, or dots, depending on locale :)
Comment 4 António Fernandes 2018-07-13 16:25:58 UTC 
We now use a Popover, so we can display the warning in-line. Discussion continues on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/529