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Opinions of User-friendliness in rockbox
JdGordon:
because how many users ever INTENTIALLY hide files?
cpchan:
--- Quote from: Llorean on January 28, 2008, 08:54:28 PM ---Why should files a user INTENTIONALLY marked as Hidden not be hidden?
--- End quote ---
Because most of of the time it is not intentional, but done by the OF or comes hiidden at factory,. To me this falls under "The principle of least surprise" for the new user. If a user really want to hide a file, then he/she can just rename it to a dot file.
Charles
Llorean:
If it's hidden by the OF, it won't show up by default on their computer either... How exactly is having Rockbox not hide files marked as hidden (and probably hidden on the original computer) least surprise?
You're talking about solving a problem that is only caused by some OFs, by creating a problem (people asking "how do I hide files") for every other firmware, and for people not using the OF? We should respect FAT32 flags.
Most file browsers respect hidden files, and either require a manual option to show them, or provide visual feedback so you know they're hidden. On the Sansa, how do you put files in a hidden folder without making it visible first?
JdGordon:
because most likely the user has set to not hide hidden files.
Llorean:
Then the user knows that hidden files exist, and can do so in Rockbox if they want to see them.
Seriously, you're suggesting taking away the freedom of users to hide files without renaming them (something you CANNOT DO in Windows Explorer) simply because of a strange behaviour in an OF that people WILL NOT HAVE TO USE.
Tell me, how does a clueless windows user choose to hide their files if we always show hidden files?
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