Re: more bugs....

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 06:11, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:

    > 
    > bug 46306 -- No way to change a link's target
    > 
    > Is changing the target of a symlink a reasonable unix action?
    > 
    
    With ln you can do that by creating a new link with the same name using
    the -f option. Not essential for a graphical shell.
    
Why do you think it is not useful to fix a broken link in a graphical
shell if it is useful in a terminal? 

Of course it is useful if you move a folder away for example, to just
point the link to the new location instead of deleting and recreating
it. Many times you have a custom icon or emblems set for those, and
those will get discarded if you need to recreate the link. I guess this
could be a button in the properties dialog that opens a file selector.

-- -- - -- - -- - --- ---  --
| Type: link (broken) [ Set new target ] <- or some better label
--- -- --   -- -- - --

Of course adding the functionality to the button is the harder part.

Tuomas

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