@Sebastien: I tried a guest session just now.

1. This was my first time using a guest session since installing 14.04.

2. On this first opening of the guest session, the nautilus preference
was found to be unchecked, so it did not show hidden files.

3. Leaving the preference unchanged, I used Ctrl+H to show hidden files,
and observed that some files were displayed.

4. I closed nautilus and then opened it again.  Hidden files were not
shown.  I repeated this sequence again to be certain.

5. I changed the preference to Show Hidden Files (checked), and observed
that hidden files were displayed.

6. I closed nautilus and opened it again.  Hidden files were shown; the
preference was respected as before.

7. Leaving the preference unchanged, I used Ctrl+H to hide hidden files,
and observed that hidden files were no longer shown.

8. I closed nautilus then opened it again.  The setting was not
remembered, and only the preference was respected.


Conclusion: in a guest session, it appears that only the preference determines 
the behavior when nautilus is opened.  Once it is already open, the temporary 
setting can be changed via Ctrl+H (or View > Show Hidden Files), but it will be 
forgotten when nautilus is closed.

This is the same behavior as in my regular user session.  The only
difference is that for my regular user, the preference defaulted to Show
Hidden the first time I used nautilus after installing 14.04, while in a
guest session the default was NOT to Show Hidden.

Sorry for the length of my post : it is difficult to be exact about
these things in a short post.

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Title:
  Nautilus doesn't remember setting for showing hidden files correctly
  when org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden is true

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