[Thunar-dev] Hidding system directories

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:07:03 -0300, Marcos Iuato wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The use case is we develop a produt for remote boot, that is used in 
> schools, institutions, companies, etc. The users are people that are not 
> used with computers, so if the file manager or applications shows 
> several directories that for them that dont make any sense, we could 
> improve usability if we just not showing what they just dont need to
> se


Well, thunar doesn't show anything above "Home" in the path bar here... oh
wait, it _didn't_  show anything above "Home" before.

I.e.:

cd ~
thunar

+[x] ~ ------------------
| [Home] [dannym]
|
| bla
|

But that seems to be changed... strange. I don't recall updating/modifying
it.

> But for an sysadmin, or others users with admins profiles they could see
>   all the systems directories for maintenace or development tasks.
> 
> I have solved this problem, to hide directories for users using gobohide
>   kernels patch from gobolinux. It worked perfectly for ours needs.

nice :)

cheers,
  Danny