[dolphin] [Bug 475805] Files with ending .bak are treated as if they were hidden.

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475805

--- Comment #14 from DonJaime at freenet.de ---
(In reply to Felix Ernst from comment #10)
> I really can't tell if you are trying to be snarky. Please let me know if
> you would prefer me to not try to get the information to move this issue
> forward.
> 
I'm not trying to be snarky. Some frustration with a lack of understanding that
seemed to be reflected in your questions may have crept into my tone. Sorry.

> > 1. All sorts of different applications do that.
> 
> Please give me some names.
> 
The one that provoked this report was Ardour. Over the past thirty years I have
used many others. I have never seen the need to keep a list.

> > 2. The point of a backup file is that it provides a backup. For the user. To use.
> 
> That's not universally true. An application might create ...
> 
And if the application doesn't want the user to mess with them, it can create
them hidden.

> > 3. That varies, too.
> 
> Give me the details then.

You don't need the details, because they would be an incomplete list based on
my use and what I have noticed and found interesting enough to remember. You
need to understand that there is a difference between a hidden file and a
backup file, and that there are an indeterminate number of ways of making use
of that difference. If you want to make everyone happy, you need to respect the
difference. If you want to make the people who want backup files hidden happy,
you need to give them an option to hide them.

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