Comment 9 for bug 391839
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(Get the code!)
It's just one .hidden file in each root directory, so the overhead would not be big - just keep that file in memory and filter every directory display through it. We already do that with dot files and with every file type selector, so it's not a big deal.
Second, I absolutely agree with comment #4: We need to care about people who do *not* customize everything. This is something that Gnome (I've been toying around with Ubuntu lately) has done really well - good, stable defaults, where "stable" means e.g. "I know where to find $FEATURE (e.g. my DVD drive) and it's not going to change".
You can't expect everybody to start searching for configuration options first thing. The ideal desktop is one that doesn't *need* to be configured. With .hidden files, we remove the need for the user to care about stuff that he can't do anything with anyway.