Allow to lockdown the 'show hidden files' option

[Siegfried Gevatter]

I have set Nautilus' show hidden files setting to false, both for the user account and globally via the gconf.xml.mandatory XML file. The problem is that Nautilus still presents "Show Hidden Files" as a workable option in its "View" menu. It only works for that session before it resets, but I don't think it should work at all. I've recompiled Nautilus in the mean time with that option removed, but I am hoping that down the line this will be fixed properly. It appears this bug may even have been part of, or at least suggested for, Google's Summer of Code:

http://code.google.com/soc/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=5B80702342ED312C

I think this would be great for sysadmins to keep most users out of certain directories and files by listing them in a ".hidden" file and to prevent users from accidentally screwing up their dot-file configurations.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

This was reported by papal as a question there: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/8871

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. The title is not that clear, would "allow to lockdown the hidden file option" summarize the request correctly?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've sent the request upstream, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452191