https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381345
Bug ID: 381345
Summary: Create a .hidden file automatically to hide crucial
Windows system folders by default ("System Volume
Information" and $RECYCLE.BIN)
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.10.2
Platform: Neon Packages
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Reporter: emailm...@protonmail.com
CC: bhus...@gmail.com, plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: 1.0
I created a request for an option to respect all Windows hidden files/folder
attributes (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364902) when I first gave
Linux/KDE Neon as serious try because I had deleted the folder "System Volume
Information" from a drive inadvertently, which caused me problems on Windows.
I've since learned that there's also a way to hide specific folders and files
on Linux, while maintaining them intact. We just have to create a separate file
named .hidden and list what is to be hidden in it.
It would be a great improvement for users if the appropriate component of KDE
Plasma created that file automatically with at least "$RECYCLE.BIN",
"$Recycle.Bin" and "System Volume Information" listed in it. These system
folders are visible on Dolphin and all other programs as soon as you mount and
click on any SSD or HD partition, including external HDs, which have been
previously used on Windows.
The few people intentionally looking for those folders know what they are
doing, and will know how to view hidden folders, or access them directly
through the directory path. Everybody else will have less visual clutter when
browsing their drives, and not be able to accidentally delete the folders for
not knowing the consequences of it.
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