Saturday... Daughter wants to know why .hidden doesn't actually hide files in Gnome as the files she wants hidden still show up in her Recent category...
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Well, ok.. Download Nautilus code start traversing here and find out that .hidden support was added to GIO, ok Glib.
Deeper down, turns out hidden file support has no concept of regular expressions at all, so there is her answer. Of course, i've been asked by her to add it.
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Explained what steps I would have to walk to complete this right now and it's a full design that WE would need time to think through (just adding regex suport and following behavior similar to .gitignore should be enough) and I want to catch up on F1, drink a beer and play with my friends.
Still, opened an account in prep on gitlab.gnome.org... Told her to just be explicit with filenames because it's all just a hash table right now.
Maybe i'll get to this, we'll see if she forgets. Time to go play.
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