289360 - cannot attach file with name starting in "." or navigate directory whose name starts in "."

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[D.K. Smetters]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2

The file picker used to select a file to attach does the equivalent of "ls", not
"ls -a" -- files and directories starting with "." do not appear. In previous
versions of mozilla, you could edit the final text name of the file, which would
allow you to manually enter filenames and path components starting in ".". The
current UI only allows you to select path components through the GUI, which
means there is no way to email your ".login" to someone, or to find a file
stored in a directory called ".personal".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start to compose a new email message
2. click the attachment button to add an attachment
3 [review]. attempt to attach any file whose name starts in ".", or any file stored in a
directory whose name starts in "."

Actual Results:  
Those files and directories do not appear in the file picker at all, and there
is no way to manually enter them in textual form.

Expected Results:  
All such files should be listed, or there should at least be a button to turn on
listing such files (perhaps with the exception of "." and ".." themselves), or
the text box that allows manual entry should be restored.

I first noticed this in the thunderbird UI; only when I went to report the bug
there did I go back and discover that it had been introduced in the main Mozilla
trunk.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

right mouse button -> show hidden files, and if you find that as unintuitive as
me, file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org in the GTK product, since mozilla
uses the GTK filepicker (if using gtk2 >= 2.4)