On Friday, January 28, 2011 11:14:47 Walter Bright wrote: > Jesse Phillips wrote: > > "I've never liked the configuration files being hidden. It's freaking > > annoying" > > > > $ ls -a > > Yes, I know about -a, and that I can alias ls to ls -a. > > > or most GUI browser it is an option in the right-click menu. > > > > Really Linux does not have "hidden" files, it has configuration files > > which it hides, but they are always easy to view unlike in Windows. > > I just don't understand the mentality (Linux or Windows) for hidden files.
You generally only want to see them if you're looking for them. Otherwise, they're just annoying. $HOME is typically extremely cluttered with hidden files on Linux, and I'd hate to be seeing all of those hidden normally. If I'm looking for them, I want to be able to see them and access them, but I definitely don't want to see them normally. Now, shoving them all in a .config or config directory would be a big improvement regardless, and maybe then hidden files wouldn't really be necessary. But I _definitely_ don't want all of those hidden files in $HOME to be unhidden. - Jonathan M Davis _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
