[dolphin] [Bug 479912] New: Please don't hide files ending in ~ – or at least add an option to not do so

[Tobias Leupold]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479912

            Bug ID: 479912
           Summary: Please don't hide files ending in ~ – or at least add
                    an option to not do so
    Classification: Applications
           Product: dolphin
           Version: 23.08.3
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: tl at stonemx.de
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

At least since 23.08.3, Dolphin decided that files ending in "~" are "hidden"
files. Like files starting with ".".

I stumbled upon this when I created a backup of a file like we always did: By
copying it to it's name with a "~" appended. The backup did not show up in
Dolphin. So I opened Konsole to check what's wrong to see the file is actually
there – but hidden.

After all, this is of course a design decision. But for me as a Linux user of
almost 20 years, I would call this at least a bit "unexpected": ls does show
files ending in "~". And it hides files starting with ".". Like it always did.
I personally would expect a file manager to behave the same.

So …  if you really think that "~" file should be hidden (for whatever reason
…): Please at least let me choose to not do so via some config option. I think
this would be trivial to add; I only didn't implement it and create a MR
because I'm not sure where to put such an option.

Thanks a lot in advance for letting the user decide this ;-)

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