Evolution 2.22.1: Unable to see hidden fields when importing

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 07:14 +0000, Anthony Gardner wrote:
> If you yourself and NoOp are saying that if you enable 'Show Hidden
> Fields' in the File Browser and then go in to import and open the file
> dialogue you can see the hidden files, then it's strange we see
> different things.

No, that's not what I did. I opened menu System > Preferences > File
Management. And _there I enabled "Show hidden and backup files". Then
the Evolution import showed me the hidden files, too.

However, if I go to menu View of an arbitrary file manager window and
enable "Show hidden files" _there, then the Evo import does not show me
the hidden files.

This seems to be because the setting in System Preferences is valid for
all file management windows/dialogs, while the item in the View menu of
a particular file manager window is valid only for this window and any
new windows opened from this window. E.g., I open Places > Home, enable
View > Hidden. Then I open Places > Desktop, and I don't see hidden
files there.