hidden files are never shown on Gnome desktop

[Spuerhund]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Hidden files are never shown on the desktop. Even when i enable "Show hidden and backup files" in Nautilus > Preferences only regular folders and files are shown there.

When i browse the "Desktop" folder in Nautilus directly all hidden files are all shown correctly according to my preferences (can easily be switched by CTRL+H). So the files are there but there is no option to show them on my desktop.

Steps to reproduce:
1) create a new hidden file on the desktop
2) press F5 to refresh and it will disapear

Expected behaviour:
Hidden file is shown according to the "Show hidden and backup files" preferences of Nautilus.
Even better would be an additional setting to enable hidden files for desktop separatly without enabling them in Nautilus folder view.

This behaviour occurs no matter if it is a hidden file or a hidden folder. Ubuntu version is 9.04 with all updates.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that's a known issue, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309856

[Spuerhund (spuerhund)]

after reading everything carefully, i disagree that this bug is a duplicate of launchpad bug #28429, but i agree that this is the same bug as reported in gnome bugzilla #309856.

Maybe this bug would be a good candidate for the 100 paper cuts list for Ubuntu 9.10? It sems to exist already for four (!) years, affects the usability for newcomers and - i asume - a fix would be quite simple.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the other bug points to the same upstream issue so that's a duplicate

[Dominik (dominik.k)]

This bug isn't the same bug as bug 28429. This one is about hidden files not shown on desktop and the other about hidden file shown after creation/deletion. So bug 28429 has pointed to the wrong upstream bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the desktop view was removed from nautilus which deprecates that issue