Re: Proposal for bug 73937 / symlinks in nautilus

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 6 Jan 2003, Rolf Kulemann wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I read through the nautilus bugs in bugzilla and found some simple(open)
> bugs which are a annoying me in my system, too. So I started hacking and
> debugging in nautilus a bit(was fun).
> 
> I attached a patch for bug 73937 to its report at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73937
> 
> It fixes the problem of resolving the real path of symlinks in nautilus.
> The bug is, if you change to a dir which is a symlink i.e.
> /pub->/misc/pub and click the dir up button you end up in /misc and not
> /.
> 
> I think.....see the bug report what other people think about that.
> 
> The patch contains no change log entry.....be patient with me I'm a
> newbie volunteer, who need to be educated by you.
> 
> Would be nice if I could get some feedback.
> (I know you all are busy hunting "the big bugs")

I agree with the reasoning that we should do it the unix-way, so I'm 
changing this.

About your patch. We don't leave old code commented out, just delete it. 
If anyone want to look at the old code it is in cvs.

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