Support .hidden like in Nautilus (GIO)

[quantenzitrone]

I know this has been asked a few times already but I think its not that complicated. It could be implemented by making a file, called .hidden for example, which lists every file or folder, which should be hidden in the current directory. This is something another, unfortunately proprietary, filemanager used and I really loved this feature because I could hide all these folders in /storage/emulated/0/ I never use. For example there is a folder called mtklog, which contain some system logs I guess, that gets recreated every time. Or random Apps creating their config folder directly in /storage/emulated/0 instead of /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/ where it should be.

[giiutfff]

That's a perfect practice of ostrich algorithm. Those apps doing arbitrary file creation should be blamed. (And this is why android's file system gets so complicated today, and it even becomes a huge obstacle to make a decent file manage app)

Should not solve a garbage problem by involving more garbage. If this has to be done, maintain a table in the database inside the app's data of hidden path should be more wise.

[quantenzitrone]

also a good idea if you think thats better

[quantenzitrone]

The .hidden file is actually a way of how other file managers manage to hide files without renaming. For example nautilus. So by solving this the ostrich way, it would provide compatibility between file managers.

[zhanghai]

Just curious, which other file manager apps on Android supports .hidden?

Theoratically a nice small enhancement, though it may be a ilttle bit hard to fit into a standard VFS due to the need to read a potentially big file when simply getting attribute of a sibling file. I can see GIO is caching the reads (a map from parent directory to file names that are hidden) so maybe I can try to do that as well.

[quantenzitrone]

I thought This propietary Filemanager would do it like it but it kinda makes it weirdly a bit different. Instead of a .hidden File, it is .hiddenFiles and Files are not even hidable(I'm not sure about that but i couldn't find the hide option for files), only folders.

the inside of .hiddenFiles looks like this:

HIDDENFILELIST
1
S|main#0|main#0|/Molly
S|main#0|main#0|/Android
S|main#0|main#0|/mtklog
S|main#0|main#0|/EAPConfig

[zhanghai]

🤔 I agree that's a bit weird 😂

[pgaskin]

Instead of a .hidden File, it is .hiddenFiles and Files are not even hidable(

CX file explorer supports .hidden too, and that works correctly.