Comment 2 for bug 156789

OK, excuse my "MS Windows mind-set" here.
Programs, OO, gEdit, Firefox etc can "Show hidden files" and it's
available to all programs - except Natalus and Thunar
"closing - MS Windows mind-set"

Still doesn't seem logical to me, but it's Linux, I'll get use to it. :)
I'm really new to Linux.

Could it be a bug with the "file manager" type programs?
After all, they to have the ability to Show/Don't show hidden files as
well, but are not affected by what other programs do.

Thanks for your response.
Have a nice day.
Bruce Milmine

Chris Cheney wrote:
> The change as to show hidden files or not affects the Gnome open dialog.
> Changing this in any application that uses the Gnome open dialog affects
> all other Gnome applications. For example show hidden files in gedit
> will cause the hidden files to show up in OpenOffice and vice versa. It
> is not a bug of OpenOffice as far as I can tell. The manner in which the
> document you quoted to enable/disable showing hidden files in OpenOffice
> is the same thing you would need to do to change it in gedit as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Cheney
>
> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>