Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep

[Chad Hardin]

GWorkspace has such an option in it's Preferences, it works with the 
.hidden file, if it exists, or creates a new one.

The packages I am developing will put a .hidden file in / so that /use, 
/dev, /etc will be hidden.

Chad

On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 01:11 PM, Martin Brecher wrote:

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> Jeff Teunissen wrote:
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> | Yes, it _is_ totally true. There is no single .hidden file; there is
> one for
> | each directory in which special pathnames should be hidden for 
> non-"UNIX
> | Expert"s. /.hidden only hides paths in the root directory. For hidden
> files
> | to work properly, they basically have to be handled at the 
> distribution
> | level.
> |
>
> With the exception of true GNUstep-centric distributions, I doubt that
> we will see a /.hidden file in any distribution at all. Thus, it might
> be a good idea to have a user-specific way to hide files/folders in the
> root folder.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> - - Martin
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