118472 - Open dialog doesn't allow dot-files or directories

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 39036

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[John Reinke]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122108

The GUI open dialog does not allow me to view the contents of directories or to
see files beginning with a period (hidden directories in Linux).

Ex 1: I wanted to email my ~/.bashrc file as an attachment, but I had to type in
the name of the file into the path, because the file was not visible.

Ex 2:  I commonly view web pages in the browser from the local file system. For
example, if my home page for the local file system is
HOME/.public_html/index.html, I would like to view it in Mozilla. Even if I
change the file types to All Files, I still have to type in not only the
".public_html", but I have to know the names of the files in that directory as
well, because they are not visible.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Self-explanitory. See both examples in the description section above.

Actual Results:  I have to type in the file names manually.

Expected Results:  Files and directories with names beginning with a period
should be visible in the open dialog. The contents of the directories should be
visible as well.

I am running the 0.9.7 release on Ximian Gnome, with the Sawfish window manager.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39036 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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