On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:59:19AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> John J. Foster schreef:
> > Good evening,
> > 
> > I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both
> > Firefox & OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden
> > folders and/or files. 
> 
> For firefox, if a Save dialog, select "Browse for other folders", then
> right-click inside the file list on the right  -- not the folder list on
> the left-- and select "Show hidden files". For the Open dialog, you
> don't have to browse, obviously. Setting will remain until you revoke
> it, though possibly not across browser sessions (not sure).

Thanks, that works fine. Even for the "Open File", which I'm not sure why 
you wouldn't think I'd have to browse.
> 
> However, if you do this a lot, you might consider making a symlink from
> the hidden folder or file to a link of the same name, but without the
> preceding ".", that way the symlink won't be hidden.
> 
Yeah, but that's really lame that I'd have to do that. OOo can be so
advanced on some things, and so incredibly stupid on others.

Thanks agin,
festus

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