Note that - users can see those directories but don't have write access to most so they can't actually damage things - nautilus open by default in the user directory, you need to go out of your way to see the system directories, it's not likely to confuse users then - that's not likely a change Ubuntu is going to work on, maybe upstream would be interested though
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1457411 Title: Nautilus shows all of the files in / even for normal users Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Right now if you go to `/` you would still see all of the files there. If your logged in as root, I can understand that, but as a normal users, its just an invitation for some users to go around and possibly break things. Currently users see this: bin boot cdrom dev etc home initrd.img initrd.img.old lib lib32 lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var vmlinuz vmlinuz.old By some minor tweaking one could turn that into this: home tmp That can be achieved by adding a file in the root folder `/.hidden` with the following content: bin boot cdrom dev etc home initrd.img initrd.img.old lib lib32 lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys usr var vmlinuz vmlinuz.old Every file you put in - that’s in the same directory as the file itself - will be hidden. Now, I also hide the home folder, made a link of my $username folder, and paste that in the root dir /. I also made a Applications folder with desktop files in them. We could link it to /usr/share/applications/. But the icons are not active for some reason? I copied the .desktop files to a folder in my home dir, and activated that, We could do something like that? I think that this is how all the `/` folders should look like for normal users in the future: Applications $username tmp screenshot http://i.stack.imgur.com/8FyXD.png This is just an idea. I wrote about this years ago: - http://www.eurobytes.nl/tutorials/how-to-hide-files-and-folders And to did others: - http://www.webupd8.org/2015/05/how-to-hide-files-and-folders-in-your.html - http://ubuntuguide.net/another-way-to-hide-files-folders-in-ubuntu - http://askubuntu.com/questions/243805/hide-certain-files-and-folders/ - http://askubuntu.com/questions/143315/how-to-hide-files-and-folders-in-nautilus/ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-37.51~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt9 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-37-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.10 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu May 21 11:15:35 2015 EcryptfsInUse: Yes GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-18 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1) SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1457411/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
