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Bug 497988

Summary:	Allow a preference to not show hidden files in file explorer
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Sachin Kotwani <skotwani>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Casey Flynn <caseyflynn>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	caseyflynn, kangy, Michael_Rennie, Silenio_Quarti, wilford, xinyij
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	15.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/91228 https://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=0cb356ecae9a994dc41b39505152dc19c124c5d4
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Description Sachin Kotwani

2016-07-15 14:20:56 EDT

For many users, seeing hidden files in their file explorer can be confusing. It would be fantastic to have a preference that allows users to enable or disable seeing hidden files in the explorer.

FYI - Here are a couple of similar or related bugs:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=387215
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=491456

Comment 1 Michael Rennie

2017-01-10 15:37:52 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 2 Casey Flynn

2017-02-15 16:42:33 EST

Reopening, assigning to myself.

Comment 3 Michael Rennie

2017-02-15 18:58:32 EST

You should only have to add entries to the new resource filtering pref. 

For example see these two commits for examples:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/diff/bundles/org.eclipse.orion.client.ui/web/orion/generalPreferences.js?id=7a45db959087ce7e3dd86dc44ca8f9caa67bae84

and 

http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/diff/bundles/org.eclipse.orion.client.ui/web/orion/widgets/settings/GeneralSettings.js?id=7a45db959087ce7e3dd86dc44ca8f9caa67bae84

Unless you were thinking of something more along the lines of a checkbox style pref like: "Filter hidden files"

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2017-02-15 19:10:29 EST

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/91228

Comment 5 Casey Flynn

2017-02-15 19:28:51 EST

(In reply to Michael Rennie from comment #3)
That is exactly what I was thinking! :) Just a simple boolean flag that, when set, will ignore files that are prefixed with a '.'.

Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2017-03-20 15:10:07 EDT

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/91228 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=0cb356ecae9a994dc41b39505152dc19c124c5d4

Comment 7 XinYi Jiang

2017-04-04 12:25:19 EDT

the final implementation is accept * and ? wildcard to hide files in navigator.