[Bug 3212] Option to hide backup files as well as dotfiles?

[David Faure]

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------- Additional Comments From faure kde org  2008-06-26 18:21 -------
Unfortunately, making everything configurable isn't a solution to every problem; it bloats the configuration dialogs or introduces hidden config keys which only solve the problem for the 5 users in this report.

I do see the need for a way to hide backup files and other such unwanted files [but let's not talk about hiding entire directories in this bug please, that's unrelated].

The purpose of backup files is that users _know_ they are there, to recover a document after a crash or a wrong deletion or overwriting of a document. Therefore they should not be hidden by default, unlike dot files.
So this means a possible solution would be to have "[X] Show backup files" in addition to "[ ] Show hidden files" (separate, because enabled by default).
This brings me back to Peter: what do you think about this? I know you might not like yet-another-menu-item... (and I'm not sure it's the best solution either).

Well I guess another solution is improving the dirfilter plugin, but then it'll be konqueror-only, no option in dolphin. That's a possibility though, if Peter prefers to keep Dolphin simpler (less configuration).

Note for comment #1: you can configure koffice so that it puts all backup files into a single directory, no more pollution of the real user directories.