Edgy - "Missing" Directories

[Constantine Evans]

Scott wrote:
> I'm not sure what's happened (I suspect I've inadvertently changed a
> setting somewhere  --  but then...maybe not) but when I open Nautilus
> and move to the top of the directory tree, I only see two directories.
> Those being "home" and "media".
> 
> Everything else is missing.  I have the same problem in KDE with
> Konqueror.

This is a new "feature" that kubuntu installs for you. It puts quite a 
few toplevel directories in /.hidden, so that konqueror and nautilus 
think that they are hidden files and don't display them. Personally, I 
think this is a bad thing to do. It certainly manages to confuse quite a 
few people, probably more than it simplifies things. It will make giving 
instructions to people very tedious (A:"Start gedit and edit 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf." B: "I don't have an /etc directory"), and make it 
very hard for users to understand instructions written for any standard 
GNU/Linux distribution.



Constantine