Version: (using KDE 4.2.4) OS: Linux Installed from: Slackware Packages Dolphin/KDE4 has some weird/inconsistent behavior when using links 1. If you right click and select "link to new location(URL)" and enter the path, then everything is fine. When you open up the link in Dolphin, you get the actual path. 2. When you drag a folder and select "link here", the link that is created contains the relative path. So if you have: /path/to/folder1 /home/matty/folder1 (where folder1 is the link to /path/to/folder1) If you use method 1, Dolphin displays /path/to/folder1 method 2, Dolphin displays /home/matty/folder1 Another thing to note is that when you use method 2, you also get a folder icon with a little arrow at the bottom left, indicating that it is a link. Perhaps this inconsistency should be addressed?
yes I think too this should be corrected, but I don't have the little arrow at the bottom left on my kde 4.4.4 suse 11.3
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Right after “Link to Location (URL)…”, you have the option “Basic link to file or directory”, which works consistently with the Link Here feature (creates a symlink). Also, now Dolphin resolves symlinks, so while there is a minor delay, you end up with the linked path in the location bar, instead of the link path. I guess this means the bug is fixed. On a side note: Dolphin creates absolute symlinks, not relative.
Actually, this is not a Dolphin issue (neither way to create a link is provided by Dolphin itself), and I'm not sure if this is a bug at all. Please note that method 1 creates a desktop file, which contains the link, whereas method 2 creates a symbolic link. Both are completely different concepts. The drag&drop menu (method 2) uses KIO::link from kdelibs, and the "Link to new location (URL)" thing is also provided by kdelibs if I'm not mistaken. If you still consider the linking behavior a problem, please point out why it causes trouble for you, and suggest a solution. Thanks.
Closing now, this should be the intended behavior.