On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:37:32 -0800, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyass...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Vitor Bosshard <algor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A trickier case: My GUI app offers scripting facilities. The
> > associated open file dialog hides all .pyc files, and users select
> > just from .py files. if subfolders are introduced, however, they can't
> > be hidden away as easily. Filtering by extension is standard
> > functionality in all GUI toolkits. Hiding a fraction of subfolders is
> > not.
> 
> You're saying you can filter files by extension, but you cannot filter
> directories by extension?

I would not be at all surprised to learn that filtering folders by
extension is not something GUI file managers usually support.

--David
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