Visible or hidden folder? about brainglobe-atlasapi HOT 4 CLOSED

I think I’m in favour of keeping the files hidden, and providing tools to allow users to inspect the atlases.

My issue with making them visible is that it could be very easy for an inexperienced user to accidentally edit a json file, rendering the whole atlas unusable.

My feeling is that users who know enough to explore a hidden directory, know enough to not play with them.

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and if they want to save to a non-hidden folder they can do so with the tools provided

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My issue with making them visible is that it could be very easy for an inexperienced user to accidentally edit a json file, rendering the whole atlas unusable.

Ok, this sounds like a good point! I was raising it just because I was trying to load an atlas from the bgviewer and the hidden folder was not shown by the pyqt5 file dialog window. But I guess that eventually this should be handled with a dropdown manu using Fede new atlas listing functionalities?

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I was raising it just because I was trying to load an atlas from the bgviewer and the hidden folder was not shown by the pyqt5 file dialog window

I think you can change this, according to this post:

fdlg = QtWidgets.QFileDialog()
        fdlg.setFilter(QDir.AllEntries | QDir.Hidden)
        if (fdlg.exec()):
            fileNames = fdlg.selectedFiles()
        fdlg.close()

But I guess that eventually this should be handled with a dropdown manu using Fede new atlas listing functionalities

I think this is the way forward.

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