Bug 479912

Summary:	Please add an option to decide which files are handled as "hidden" files
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Tobias Leupold <tl>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	akselmo, fanzhuyifan, kfm-devel, tl
Priority:	NOR
Version:	23.08.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/commit/9691afbc507ee480d4d129a6fff90b6b926aed62?merge_request_iid=695	Version Fixed In:	24.02
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Description Tobias Leupold 2024-01-16 19:32:06 UTC

At least since 23.08.3, Dolphin decided that files ending in "~" are "hidden" files. Like files starting with ".".

I stumbled upon this when I created a backup of a file like we always did: By copying it to it's name with a "~" appended. The backup did not show up in Dolphin. So I opened Konsole to check what's wrong to see the file is actually there – but hidden.

After all, this is of course a design decision. But for me as a Linux user of almost 20 years, I would call this at least a bit "unexpected": ls does show files ending in "~". And it hides files starting with ".". Like it always did. I personally would expect a file manager to behave the same.

So …  if you really think that "~" file should be hidden (for whatever reason …): Please at least let me choose to not do so via some config option. I think this would be trivial to add; I only didn't implement it and create a MR because I'm not sure where to put such an option.

Thanks a lot in advance for letting the user decide this ;-)

Comment 1 fanzhuyifan 2024-01-17 06:42:16 UTC

Hi, thank you for your bug report!

KDE decided to implement this since a lot of users explicitly asked for this behavior (e.g., see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3212)
For workaround, you could take a look at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3212#c81

Marking this as intentional since this was intentionally implemented.

Comment 2 Tobias Leupold 2024-01-17 08:45:27 UTC

Okay I see … still, there really should be an option to decide which files should be hidden and which not.

Thanks for the hint with the workaround! But still, it's a workaround. I would not mark this as "resolved", as the "at least add an option to not do so" part remains a feature request. I'm editing the title and reopening this …

Comment 3 fanzhuyifan 2024-01-23 05:58:34 UTC

Seems implemented in https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/695?

Comment 4 Tobias Leupold 2024-01-23 06:48:08 UTC

Well, not exactly how I would do it, but a step towards the right direction.

I personally would not assume that those "hidden" files share one MIME type. But maybe, it's just me … for me, the only way to "hide" a file has always been letting it start with a dot. So I would have assumed that it's some wildcard Dolphin uses, not a MIME type …

Comment 5 fanzhuyifan 2024-01-23 20:42:03 UTC

Closing because I verified that files ending in tilde are not hidden if you unselect "Also hide backup files while hiding hidden files".

Comment 6 Tobias Leupold 2024-01-24 12:37:50 UTC

Fair enough ;-)