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Bug 491456

Summary:	The ".orion" folder should (probably) be hidden
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Component:	Node	Assignee:	Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4	CC:	Carolyn_MacLeod, mamacdon, Silenio_Quarti, steve_northover
Version:	12.0
Target Milestone:	15.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
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Description Michael Rennie

2016-04-11 13:00:28 EDT

Steps:

1. start up your workspace on orion.eclipse.org
2. notice the ".orion" folder at the top

Should this folder be hidden from users? It contains the prefs and sites infos - and hand editing this info (and possibly breaking it) can lead to bad states in Orion.

Comment 1 Mark Macdonald

2016-04-11 13:07:03 EDT

Personally I like having that stuff visible, it makes the server preferences feel less magical and gives you an easy way to import settings from another orion, or recover from a bad pref state.

But YMMV

Comment 2 Carolyn MacLeod

2016-04-11 13:35:13 EDT

I think (?) devs generally know that dot-files are for configuration, and they're "use at your own risk", so you'd better know what you are doing before editing one.
However, what I don't know is how robust other apps are that rely on dot-files.
For example, if someone edited a .cshrc or .login file in Linux/Unix and they put bogus stuff in there, would they destroy their ability to log in or run their c shell?

Comment 3 Carolyn MacLeod

2016-04-11 13:51:01 EDT

Maybe it should be (yet another) setting?

Comment 4 Michael Rennie

2016-04-11 15:46:38 EDT

I personally also like seeing config files. My only reason for filing the bug was to ask if this was intentional, and if not, did we want to give users enough rope to (possibly) hang themselves.

Comment 5 Michael Rennie

2017-01-10 15:40:22 EST

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg04002.html

Comment 6 Michael Rennie

2017-01-12 10:37:26 EST

Now that we have the ability to filter resources, this can be easily fixed.

Comment 7 Steve Northover

2017-03-30 12:07:17 EDT

My feeling is leave it visible.  Like Car says, dev's know not to touch this stuff.