Bug 118386

Summary:	'directory chooser' dialouge and hidden directories
Product:	[Unmaintained] kfile	Reporter:	James Spencer <jamessp>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148997
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description James Spencer 2005-12-15 16:18:17 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
Compiler:          g++ 4.0.2 Debian/Unstable 
OS:                Linux

The dierectory chooser dialogue (not the save/open dialogue) will happily give you type ahead option for hidden directories (and their subdirectories), but won't update the graphical directory listing. IMHO this is a bug, as konqueror (and, if I'm not mistaken all other 'fileish' dialogues) will let you do this. Most apps will not let the user 'OK' (Kaffeine and kDirStat come to mind) a manually entered hidden directory. If this behaviour is deliberate, I stand corrected, but:
-This dialogue is hobbled by the fact that there is no configure button that allows you to view hidden directories, or to set detailed view as the save / open dialogue has.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2009-08-27 02:37:01 UTC

Moving from "kio/kfile" component to "kfile" product, helps sorting out duplicates.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-04-09 22:04:02 UTC

The problem does not happen in KDE Frameworks 5.45.