Hide Backup Files

[Derek Broughton]

Scott wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> is there  way to have the backup files, files with a ~, not show up by
> default in Konqueror.  I love having the backup files, but 99% of the
> time they are just in the way.
> 
There _used_ to be - the one directory I used to do something like this in,
though, it isn't working any more, so I wonder if it's been completely
ripped out of Kubuntu.

When Edgy was released, there was a dot-file in the / directory that hid
most of the contents - I believe it was just called .hidden, and files
named in there (and possibly file globs like *~, but I'm not certain) would
not appear in Konqueror.  It turned out that people really, really, really
hated this (actually, it wasn't a bad idea, but you can't just throw
something like that into a release without warning the users!), and they
didn't distribute that file in feisty and later - but I thought the
principle still worked, however the only file named .hidden that I have has
no apparent effect under Hardy.
-- 
derek