2008/8/10 Christian Neumair
<cneumair gnome org>
Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 08:20 +0200 schrieb Emmanuel Dupoux:
> if you open a directory through a symbolic link
> you are stuck in the subpart of the directory tree that is pointed by
> the link.
> It is a major pain in the neck. Is there a way to access the ..
> directory?
No, because that's how symbolic links are supposed to work, and how they
work in a UNIX shell.
You are perfectly right! I was so much used to the Windows shortcuts,
I thought it worked the same in Unix. [There is a slight inconsistency within nautilus,
though, that confused me: when you open a term using the right
click 'open in a terminal' within a directory pointed to via a symbolic
link, it does open it with the 'real' physical path, not the symbolic path.]
If you want a shortcut rather than a "pseudo
duplicate", you have to create a launcher, for instance by
right-clicking on the desktop, chosing "Create Launcher..." and entering
the target URI into the dialog. You can then move the launcher wherever
you want.
yes; I created a launcher for nautilus with the appropriate directory as target;
it works perfectly; thanks!
I have been thinking about more intuitive ways of exposing the launcher
vs. symbolic link concept, but I could not come up with a satisfying
solution. Maybe both should be called "Link", and for local links you
have two right-click context menu entries
[ ] Symbolic Link
[X] Launchable Link, or Shortcut
This would be great! (Shortcut is a good name)
by the way, this would allow to modify the path of the symbolic
link, which you cannot do at present.
Toggling would replace the symlink with a launcher and vice versa. The
proposed naming is poor, a concise naming that is intuitive for the
majority of users has to be found. In essence, the difference is
"behaves-like" vs. "points-to".
it looks like a difference between intensional vs denotational semantics.
thanks again
Emmanuel
