314011 - Choose Profile Folder does not display directories starting with dot eg .mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, enhancement)

Description

[Henry Grebler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

/opt/firefox_1.5/firefox -ProfileManager
"Firefox - Choose User Profile"
Create Profile
"Create Profile Wizard"
Next
Choose Folder
"Choose Profile Folder"
double-click Filesystem

Now navigate to, say /home/henryg - none of the directories that start with a dot (period) is visible. That means most directories are not visible. In particular, .mozilla is not displayed! So, although I'm being offered 
/home/henryg/.mozilla/firefox/iu7jhc9v.Firefox1.5Beta2 as the directory in 
which my settings, prefrences etc will be stored, I can't navigate there.







Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /opt/firefox_1.5/firefox -ProfileManager
2. "Firefox - Choose User Profile"
3. Create Profile
4. "Create Profile Wizard"
5. Next
6. Choose Folder
7. "Choose Profile Folder"
8. double-click Filesystem
9. Now navigate to, say /home/henryg




Actual Results:  
Directories which do not begin in a dot are displayed. Those which begin with a dot are not - and they are the most important.

Expected Results:  
It should display ALL directories.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

caillon, is there a flag we can pass to the GTK filepicker which will show hidden files?

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I've seen mention of using set_show_hidden(show_hidden).

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

You can choose hidden files by right clicking in the file picker and choose "Show hidden files". Would be good if it was automatic though.

Comment 4

[Henry Grebler]

Thank you for the suggestions. I revisited the problematic window and discovered
that there is indeed an option I can click to "Show hidden files and directories".

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

re-opening to cover the enhancement request that this be done automatically.

Comment 6

[u597032]

Can't reproduce this in current versions of Firefox. Can we close this bug?