Comment 10 for bug 130997

So does this mean that nothing will be done at all?

Besides, I can think of cases beyond Thumbs.db, where it would be nice to have a way of hiding files. Pesky .pyc files are a good example. Nautilus already does its own hiding of files, such as files ending with ~, so why is this a big problem?

Also, sometimes folders will get copied from one filesystem to another, and so hiding Thumbs.db on a filesystem that looks like Windows, only to have it appear on an ext4 partition after copying, doesn't seem like a much better solution. Of course I'm not sure if that's what the "filesystem specific checks" would imply, but it's a potential problem.