Description: One of the directories in my document path is preceded by a dot (<somePath>/.name/<morePath>/file.odg) and thus does not show up in the directory listing for navigating to a file in the Open dialog. Understandable since it's a "hidden" directory, but there is no option in the dialog to show hidden directories! Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click Open on the toolbar or select File > Open from the menu. 2. Attempt to navigate into a directory whose name begins with ".". 3. Repeat step 2. Actual Results: Cannot navigate to the directory, and there is no option provided for enabling the functionality. Expected Results: I expect to be able to navigate into any valid directory that I have viewer permissions for. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Provide a checkbox in the Open dialog for showing hidden directories. (Duh.) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; MTI; rv:11.0) like Gecko
CTRL+h works for me.
That's not intuitive at all. There should be a visible checkbox on the dialog for toggling that option on/off, or at the very least a label noting the CTRL+h option. Users aren't psychic.
(In reply to Mike from comment #2) > That's not intuitive at all. There should be a visible checkbox on the > dialog for toggling that option on/off, or at the very least a label noting > the CTRL+h option. Users aren't psychic. I think LO uses system dialogs (from Gnome). Try for example open file from Firefox - you will get identical dialog. If I'm right then this is not our bug. For permanently show hidden files, you can Edit>Preferences in file manager Nautilus/Files.
Okay, you are correct - it's a system dialog rather than LO. Thanks for the file manager preferences tip. I changed the default setting and hidden directories now show up in the LO dialogs.