392912 - Saving an attachment on Linux displays hidden (dot-prefixed) folders

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Stephen Gallagher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070718 Fedora/2.0.0.5-1.fc7 Firefox/2.0.0.5
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.5 (20070719)

My setup:
Fedora 7 running the thunderbird-2.0.0.5-1.fc7 package.
I am running in KDE 3.5.7 with the compiz-fusion package compiz-kde-0.5.2-0.1.fc7 installed from the kagesenshi repository.

When I choose to save an attachment to disk, it presents me with a file browser to select the location to save it. However, my $HOME directory is cluttered with dozens of dot-prefixed folders. Dot-prefixed folders are intended to be hidden by default on Linux unless an option to view them is specifically chosen.

I would like to request that hidden folders (on all platforms) be honored in the attachment browser. Making an option to enable viewing of hidden folders would be better.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose to save an attachment to an email.
2. System presents you with file browser to download
3. Browse to any directory with hidden folders (folders prefixed with a '.')
4. Verify that those directories are not hidden.
Actual Results:  
Hidden directories are visible (and in my case, clutter the home directory making it difficult to navigate)

Expected Results:  
Only directories not prefixed with a dot should be visible.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

That's a native dialog, have you right-clicked in the listing and opted in for "show hidden", accidentally?

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->INVALID per previous comment, and no response from reporter. Right click in the dialog to set it up as you like.