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The dotfiles in the user home (~/.?*) may contain sensitive information (applications are free to store anything in there, and sometimes store things like cleartext passwords or crypto private keys there.

Especially with Windows computers (but other modern OSes as well), one can never know what software might browse, index or cache these files, without knowledge or consent of the user.

It would be nice to have the option in the Jolla/Sailfish MTP implementation to not show these files, and have that configurable in the UI.

An additional benefit would be reduced clutter when browsing the shared home via USB/MTP.

The dotfiles in the user home (~/.?*) may contain sensitive information (applications are free to store anything in there, and sometimes store things like cleartext passwords or crypto private keys there.

Especially with Windows computers (but other modern OSes as well), one can never know what software might browse, index or cache these files, without knowledge or consent of the user.

It would be nice to have the option in the Jolla/Sailfish MTP implementation to not show these files, and have that configurable in the UI.

An additional benefit would be reduced clutter when browsing the shared home via USB/MTP.

The dotfiles in the user home (~/.?*) may contain sensitive information (applications are free to store anything in there, and sometimes store things like cleartext passwords or crypto private keys there.

Especially with Windows computers (but other modern OSes as well), one can never know what software might browse, index or cache these files, without knowledge or consent of the user.

It would be nice to have the option in the Jolla/Sailfish MTP implementation to not show these files, and have that configurable in the UI.

An additional benefit would be reduced clutter when browsing the shared home via USB/MTP.

The dotfiles in the user home (~/.?*) may contain sensitive information (applications are free to store anything in there, and sometimes store things like cleartext passwords or crypto private keys there.keys.)

Especially with Windows computers (but other modern OSes as well), one can never know what software might browse, index or cache these files, without knowledge or consent of the user.

It would be nice to have the option in the Jolla/Sailfish MTP implementation to not show these files, and have that configurable in the UI.

An additional benefit would be reduced clutter when browsing the shared home via USB/MTP.

The dotfiles in the user home (~/.?*) may contain sensitive information (applications are free to store anything in there, and sometimes store things like cleartext passwords or crypto private keys.)

Especially with Windows computers (but other modern OSes as well), one can never know what software might browse, index or cache these files, without knowledge or consent of the user.

It would be nice to have the option in the Jolla/Sailfish MTP implementation to not show these files, and have that configurable in the UI.

An additional benefit would be reduced clutter when browsing the shared home via USB/MTP.

The dotfiles in the user home (~/.?*) may contain sensitive information (applications are free to store anything in there, and sometimes store things like cleartext passwords or crypto private keys.)

Especially with Windows computers (but other modern OSes as well), one can never know what software might browse, index or cache these files, without knowledge or consent of the user.

It would be nice to have the option in the Jolla/Sailfish MTP implementation to not show these files, and have that configurable in the UI.

An additional benefit would be reduced clutter when browsing the shared home via USB/MTP.

==== As requested, for clarification: MTP: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol) is what is used to browse files on the jolla from a computer (usually) when the device is connected via USB cable.

It is not UMS (USB Mass Storage) which is what used to be used on phones like the N9 in the past. And many users wish we had on Jolla as well. UMS is often incorrectly referred to as "USB" when talking about file transfer.

USB is the physical connection as well a a set of protocols spoken over this connection. It is the physical layer MTP is spoken over.

The dotfiles in the user home (~/.?*) may contain sensitive information (applications are free to store anything in there, and sometimes store things like cleartext passwords or crypto private keys.)

Especially with Windows computers (but other modern OSes as well), one can never know what software might browse, index or cache these files, without knowledge or consent of the user.

It would be nice to have the option in the Jolla/Sailfish MTP implementation to not show these files, and have that configurable in the UI.

An additional benefit would be reduced clutter when browsing the shared home via USB/MTP.