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Bug 166593

Summary:	[Workbench] file selector shows hidden files
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	David Reitter <david.reitter>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5	CC:	gdean
Version:	3.2.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description David Reitter

2006-12-02 06:10:00 EST

The Mac file selector displayed shows a tremendous number of files which shouldn't be shown under the UI standards of the Mac platform. In particular, it shows a whole lot of "dot files", cluttering the list. This makes navigation much more tedious.

If you really need to provide an option to edit somebody's .bash_profile or whatever, then please  give users an option (via an element inside the file selector) to show these files, and have it default to off.

Comment 1 Tod Creasey

2007-06-21 10:44:32 EDT

We are using the platform file selector as is. Do you have any idea of how to set these filters?

Comment 2 Greg Dean

2007-10-10 12:55:21 EDT

Every other Mac program I use filters out files starting with '.'. How is the platform file selector different than what other apps (including Finder) are using?

Comment 3 Susan McCourt

2009-07-15 12:36:20 EDT

"As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009"

Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:16:13 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2021-10-09 15:48:50 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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