Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

[Chris Jones]

> Oh, the other reason I wouldn't do that....  It may happen that you
> download the latest thunderbird tar file from Mozilla and forgetfully
> extract it in your home directory....  Oooops....

 > mv .thunderbird MyThunderbirdSettings
 > ln -s MyThunderbirdSettings .thunderbird

Problem (that wasn't really a problem anyway....) solved.

Chris