Bug 390469

Summary:	Symlinks symbolic links: Please add option to create relative or absolute soft links
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	paul.dallas.sv1ui
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	dimitri.code, elvis.angelaccio, eugene.shalygin+bugzilla.kde, goodaqua, nate, tobias.bora
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	24.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=139218
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Description paul.dallas.sv1ui 2018-02-14 19:37:19 UTC

Could a selector be added in Dolphin Preferences to allow the user to choose whether the soft links it creates are absolute or relative?
This should be fairly straightforward to implement and a HUGE help for people like me who use a lot of linked data.
Thank you! P.D.

Comment 1 Tobias Bora 2022-04-06 11:29:42 UTC

Is there any news on this? I also would love to have this feature (it is useful to preserve links when moving or copy/pasting folders), I guess it should be fairly easy to add an option in the dropdown menu. For now, a workaround is to install `symlinks`, and run `symlink -cr .` in the folder after copy/pasting the links, but it's not really practical.

Comment 2 Dimitri 2025-01-07 17:31:39 UTC

Yes it would be great. I think we should have 3 options in Dolphin settings : create absolute links, create relative links, ask link's type each time.
For selecting the type each time, there would be two possibilities of how it could be presented : a pop-up (which would have the advantages of being able to have a "remember it" option (and maybe to visualize the path for both option)) or choosing between "Absolute link from here" and "Relative link from here" directly instead of "Link here" (which would have the advantages of not needing any additional click).

Having the possibility to choose on the fly is a more advanced feature than just having 2 choice in Dolphin settings, so it can be added far later.