Re: Proposal for bug 73937 / symlinks in nautilus

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 17 Jan 2003, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:

> > This means that the user almost always (especially novice users) believe 
> > that the symlink path is *the* location, and are not suprised when "up" in 
> > /tmp goes to / instead of /mnt/hdb2. Instead I think they would be 
> > confused if following "tmp" in / would go to /mnt/hdb2/tmp as this would 
> > unnecessary expose them to the concept of symlinks which they would be 
> > forced to learn.
> 
> I am not convinced at all of this; but anyways, without testing evidence
> it's just my opinion vs. yours.  :-)

Dave, what is your opinion about this?

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