should not declare a directory that contains only hidden files "empty"

[Christian Pernegger]

Nautilus displays a big directory symbol alongside the message "directory is empty" [or something to that effect] for empty directories. However, it does not differentiate at all between directories that are truly empty, and directories that contain only hidden files and directories (i.e. their names start with a dot).

I've lost data that way. By removing seemingly "empty" directories, I mean. More than once. (The fact that the recycle bin is broken on btrfs [see Debian bug #698640) does not help.

Could nautilus display, I don't know, a question mark in the symbol and "contains only hidden items" in the description or something?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: nautilus 1:42.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-1014.14~22.04.1-lowlatency 6.2.16
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-1014-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Oct 14 21:11:29 2023
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.compression' b'default-compression-format' b"'7z'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-zoom-level' b"'larger'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'default-folder-viewer' b"'list-view'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'initial-size' b'(1877, 841)'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'213'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-08-02 (73 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230223)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_nautilus:
 evince 42.3-0ubuntu3
 file-roller 3.42.0-1
 nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal 3.44.0-1ubuntu1
 nautilus-share 0.7.3-2ubuntu6

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Is the issue specific to the listview? Could you perhaps report it also upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues ?