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:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	elvis.angelaccio, eugene.shalygin+bugzilla.kde, nate, tobias.bora
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=139218
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

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.