Also, don't forget that if you hide the right directories in the root (such as /usr) it's not really necessary to also hide the subdirs with .hidden files (unless you think someone's going to be manually typing a path such as /usr/local/bin to Nautilus).
Also, this *only* affects Nautilus (I'm sure you know that, just re-stating it). Things like OpenOffice open/save dialogs aren't affected by this. Cheers, Jordan/Lns Jordan Mantha wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Scott Balneaves > <sbaln...@legalaid.mb.ca> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> After a discussion between myself, Ahmuck, and Lns yesterday, wherein >> Lns revealed the mysteries of the ".hidden" file to me for hiding things >> from Nautilus, I banged together "hide-tool" last night, a brief shell >> script that does the following: >> >> 1) Create '.hidden' files >> for /, /usr, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib, and /usr/local/bin. >> 2) Allow for overrides within these hidden driectories (for example, in >> root, "home" isn't hidden). >> 3) fires the hide-tool job off hourly, so that as an administrator adds >> or removes packages from the system, the .hidden files are updated. >> >> There's a man page that comes with it. It's in my ppa. >> >> https://edge.launchpad.net/~sbalneav/+archive/ppa >> >> Any questions, let me know. >> >> Oh, btw, if you remove the package, you'll have to go into the >> directories and manually remove the .hidden files. > > Maybe in the packages prerm script you can have it remove these? If > you were able to track somewhere (/etc/hide-tool or something) what > .hidden files had been added then removing only those should be a > snap. > > -Jordan > -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
