[dolphin] [Bug 465016] Dolphin started treating files/folders with hidden property set in NTFS files the same as any Linux hidden file/folder

[Felix Ernst]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465016

--- Comment #3 from Felix Ernst <felixernst at kde.org> ---
Hmm, so I'll try to understand your argument. Please explain it once more if I
get it wrong. So the argument is that files on a NTFS file system are normally
controlled by Windows, and if a user accesses them, they are normally
interested in messing with the system files from Linux. Therefore we shouldn't
consider them hidden because files that are hidden on Windows aren't really
files that should be hidden from a Linux user accessing Windows?

Be aware though that Dolphin can be installed on Windows. Would we also show
hidden files when someone is currently using Windows?

What would be really useful is some clear use case e.g. "I need to access
*$certain files* on Windows from Linux that make sense when they are hidden on
Windows but somehow not from Linux".

In any case I won't close this bug report for now because I don't feel like I
understand the full scope behind it. Maybe someone else who has a use for this
behaviour picks it up at one point.

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