Showing hidden files/folders

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#1

Does anyone know how to turn on "Show Hidden Files/Folders"? The LO Save or Save As does not appear to have the option to enable it. There used to be a way in the Options Dialogue under General to select System Wide Dialogues which in the past worked for this problem, but I can't seem to find that anymore.

I have LO ver. 3.4.4 on Fedora 16

Thanks
Scott Castaline

#2

Scott

Does anyone know how to turn on "Show Hidden Files/Folders"? The LO Save or Save As does not appear to have the option to enable it. There used to be a way in the Options Dialogue under General to select System Wide Dialogues which in the past worked for this problem, but I can't seem to find that anymore.

I have LO ver. 3.4.4 on Fedora 16

Thanks
Scott Castaline

In your file browser (Dolphin, etc) under View select Show Hidden FIles

#3

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Tools>Options>General>Open/Save dialogs|uncheck 'Use Libreoffice
dialogs'. File|Open|right click in the file section & click on 'Show
Hidden Files'.

#4

I have it set to Show Hidden Files in both Konqueror and PCManFM. Yes I use Konqueror as a File Manager as it's more flexible than PCManFM the default FM for LXDE and it still makes no difference.

#5

It's not there. I can remember it being there in older versions, but for some reason not this one. I have gone through each section under options, thinking that maybe I didn't remember it right, even went to tools->customize, and of course it wasn't there. I am using the version as available on the Fedora 16 repo, which is what I've always done once LO replaced OOo on Fedora, but that shouldn't matter.

#6

Ah. It's a distro issue. I just brought up Linux Mint 12 LO 3.4.4 and
the option is missing there as well. Fired up Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) and
the option is there with LO 3.3.4 (distro version). I reckon that the
distro packagers are trying to dumb down everything... including LO.
File an LO bug in both Fedora and LO.

Note: installing directly from LO (3.3.4 or 3.4.x) has the option, so
it's definately a distro packaging issue.

[TAG] LibreOffice linux distribution versions missing
'Tools|Options|General|Open/Save dialogs' option.

#7

Yep, that's what I was beginning to think. I don't know why unless they want LO to maintain its own environment? Not sure if that is phrased correctly. Or maybe something has changed in the way LO requests that dialogue and the way the system responds to the request. I wonder if completing the change over to systemd has anything to do with it. If someone has Fedora 15 that was the last version before everything was cut over to systemd.

Based on that I am planning on filing a bug report with Fedora for removing that option and with LO for not allowing the ability to do from their own dialogue. Would you mind replying with a link for doing the LO bug report?

#8

In Suse/kde I get the KDE (dolphin?) file dialogue. Top right that has the settings icon with normal show/hide hidden files option.

#9

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Ah. It's a distro issue. I just brought up Linux Mint 12 LO 3.4.4 and
the option is missing there as well. Fired up Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) and
the option is there with LO 3.3.4 (distro version). I reckon that the
distro packagers are trying to dumb down everything... including LO.
File an LO bug in both Fedora and LO.

Note: installing directly from LO (3.3.4 or 3.4.x) has the option, so
it's definately a distro packaging issue.

[TAG] LibreOffice linux distribution versions missing
'Tools|Options|General|Open/Save dialogs' option.

Yep, that's what I was beginning to think. I don't know why unless they
want LO to maintain its own environment? Not sure if that is phrased
correctly. Or maybe something has changed in the way LO requests that
dialogue and the way the system responds to the request. I wonder if
completing the change over to systemd has anything to do with it. If
someone has Fedora 15 that was the last version before everything was
cut over to systemd.

Based on that I am planning on filing a bug report with Fedora for
removing that option and with LO for not allowing the ability to do from
their own dialogue. Would you mind replying with a link for doing the LO
bug report?

No problem & here is how you get there from the main LO page:

http://www.libreoffice.org/
  http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/
    https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/

I think that they should add this link so that those filing bugs have
additional information:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport

Added note: I found this particular oddity; in Linux Mint 12 (which uses
the Ubuntu repositories for all things LO 3.4.4 doesn't show the dialog
option. However on Ubuntu 11.10 LO 3.4.4 the dialog does show. Both are
LibreOffice 3.4.4 OOO340m1 (Build:402). I went through both systems &
verified that the same versions of the packages are installed. So I'm
still trying to figure out the differences. If I can do that then I may
possibly figure out why one has it and the other does not.

#10

Hi :slight_smile:
If it is distro specific then surely a bug-report against the distro itself rather than upstream here?  This link for Ubuntu (possibly upstream of the problem in Mint?)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

This one for Fedora and others in the Redhat family
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: