[Solved] Re: Edgy - "Missing" Directories

[Scott]

On Sunday 08 October 2006 08:40 pm, Scott (geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com)
spake thusly:

> On Sunday 08 October 2006 06:46 pm, Constantine Evans
> (constantine at evanslabs.org) spake thusly:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Oh for crying out loud!
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Threre's got to be a hack to undo this mess.

Indeed there is and it's fairly simple.

cd / && sudo rm .hidden

*sigh*

It looks like Kubuntu is getting the GNOME disease.  Hopefully it won't
spread to all of KDE.

-- 
        Scott
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