From 6f44462455d8abad918c420636f4adcc7f64138c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Walter Bender <walter@sugarlabs.org>
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:18:45 +0000
Subject: Set HIDDEN attribute on .Sugar-Metadata directory

According to the OLPC AU dpeloyment [1], 50% of the support calls they
get from teachers are due to a confusion caused by looking in the
.Sugar-Metadata directory for files from Windows. "On Windows, the
directory is not hidden, and people are going into it expecting their
files to be in there. What's even more confusing is that the filenames
they are looking for are indeed inside, but those are metadata and not
the actual files."

This patch uses a new Sugar extension, sugar-fatattr, to set the
HIDDEN attribute on the .Sugar-Metadata directory.[2]

[1] http://sugardextrose.org/issues/1367
[2] sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3#33
---
diff --git a/src/jarabe/journal/model.py b/src/jarabe/journal/model.py
index 727e4ff..f8b39a4 100644
--- a/src/jarabe/journal/model.py
+++ b/src/jarabe/journal/model.py
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ import dbus
 from gi.repository import Gio
 from gi.repository import GConf
 
+from gi.repository import SugarExt
+
 from sugar3 import dispatch
 from sugar3 import mime
 from sugar3 import util
@@ -1067,6 +1069,12 @@ def _write_metadata_and_preview_files_and_return_file_paths(metadata,
     if not os.path.exists(metadata_dir_path):
         os.mkdir(metadata_dir_path)
 
+    # Set the HIDDEN attrib even when the metadata directory already
+    # exists for backward compatibility.
+    if not SugarExt.fat_set_hidden_attrib(metadata_dir_path):
+        logging.error('Could not set hidden attribute on %s' %
+                      (metadata_dir_path))
+
     preview = None
     if 'preview' in metadata_copy:
         preview = metadata_copy['preview']
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