On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko@greshko.com wrote:
Another way around it is to use the nautilus integration with k3b. Unlike k3b, nautilus has a selection for "view hidden files". Then you can drag and drop precisely what you need from nautilus to k3b.
Ed, I'll let be honest. I sometimes can't help but to think of you as some kind of hermit in his cave, asking all kind of superfluous details and so on, but...
once again I must admit that this works :) You're helpful.
To answer pretty much all answers in this thread, I'll add that having .thunderbird and .evolution hidden does not seem to me like a good idea. Hidden files should be for configuration, not data. I suppose that's why I have ~/Mail which, I suppose, was added there by default for... I don't know, I suppose some not wysiwyg mail program such as Pine. This is correct.
Hidden files will prevent newbies from deleting directories, but why the hell should a user delete a directory named "Mail" if he doesn't know its purpose?
OTOH, hiding the directory will end up in many users not backing it up.
IMO, still not a good idea.