GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 620925
[PATCH] Mark "File System" as hidden
Last modified: 2012-03-29 09:49:38 UTC
Created attachment 163007 [details] [review] Sets the hidden flag on "File System" to TRUE Mark the "File System" folder in computer:// as hidden. Why do this? Because the root file system isn't generally needed or used. It's technical and geeky in the same way that other entities hidden by 'Show Hidden Files' are. Its presence causes more problems than useful functionality.
See the original nautilus bug #620313 for more information.
Nack. The file system root was explicitly moved from being generally visible in the ui to being in the more specialized computer location as a way to have it accessible by default without bothering the user all the time.
Its possible we should remove it from the places sidebar though.
I don't like the idea of removing it from the sidebar. Personally, I don't like accessing it through computer://, because it's more complicated than the sidebar (it requires more clicks, and is not accessible in a habituated, muscle-trained way, as the location of the "File System" entry in the computer location tends to change). Honestly, I don't find the computer:// location very useful in general.