[TYPO3-core] RFC #5779: Hide dotfiles such as .svn in filelists

[Martin Kutschker]

Steffen Gebert schrieb:
> Am 29.12.2009, 11:52 Uhr, schrieb Bernhard Kraft <kraftb at kraftb.at>:
> 
>> Steffen Gebert schrieb:
>>
>>> And I'm for a default setting to stay as it is currently: Display
>>> .-folders/files.
>>
>> BTW: I assume you are normally using Windows. In UNIX (and other real
>> POSIX
>> operating systems) .dot files are hidden if you do a "ls" or view them
>> using Nautilus or other graphical file browsers.
>>
>> In windows there's a flag with file properties to set them as hidden. In
>> UNIX files are hidden if they start with a leading dot.
>>
>> So this should be enough of an argument to HAVE this feature! Still:
>> Any +1
>> or other ideas about this bug?
> 
> Hi Bernhard,
> 
> no, I don't use Windows (except in VMs), but MacOS and Linux for daily
> work.
> 
> Just to state it clearly: I'm NOT against this RFC, I only have
> objections to the current implementation.
> IMHO the nicest way would even be to have a checkbox "Show hidden files"
> below the file list.

The checkbox is a nice idea. Do we need to two levels of invisibility? One level that can be
revealed by ticking the checkbox and another one that remains hidden all the time?

Masi