Bug 85348

Summary:	Treating windows links like normal links
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Philipp Weissenbacher <philippweissenbacher>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	angel_blue_co2004, darkmiles, echidnaman, matthew.flaschen, peter.penz19
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description Philipp Weissenbacher 2004-07-16 21:34:34 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

It would be very cool if I could use links I've made in Windows (any version of course ;-) ) within KDE.

What I don't want is the links to be converted into a different format or something else.

Is this feasible?

If anything is unclear -> drop me a line

Gruß,
Philipp

Comment 1 Philipp Weissenbacher 2004-07-16 21:39:45 UTC

If you need more information concerning the file format go to http://www.wotsit.org/ and search for LNK

Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2004-07-18 16:00:40 UTC

KDE 3.3 has a "Window lnk File Forwarder" - but don't ask me if it does what you want. :-)

Comment 3 Philipp Weissenbacher 2004-07-18 16:07:40 UTC

I don't know that "Window lnk File Forwarder" ot what is doeas.

I just thought of treating Windows (in German: Verknüpfungen) links as KDE links.

Comment 4 Bram Schoenmakers 2006-11-05 12:55:07 UTC

*** Bug 136861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Tommi Tervo 2006-12-19 08:31:39 UTC

*** Bug 138988 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Matthew Flaschen 2006-12-19 08:43:07 UTC

Cygwin has done some work in this area (http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html) and (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg00295.html).  Also, Microsoft documentation is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/ifaces/ishelllink/ishelllink.asp

Comment 7 Matthew Flaschen 2006-12-19 09:38:22 UTC

This functionality is actually provided already!

To configure:

1. Install the kdeaddons-kfile-plugins package.
2. Right-click a .lnk file, then click "Properties".
3. Click the configuration wrench.
4. Click Windows Lnk File Forwarder in the bottom box, then "Edit..."
5. Click the "Application" tab on top.
6. In the "Command" box, there will be "lnkforward -map C=/mnt/winc".  Replace /mnt/winc with the mount point for your (first) windows drive letter.  Additinal windows drive letters should be specified with there own -map.  E.g. if you have a C & D drive put "lnkforward -map C=/myCDrive -map D=/myDDrive".  You need a -map pair for each drive letter.
7. Click OK.  These configurations will be saved to your home directory, and the .lnk files should work.

Comment 8 Matthew Flaschen 2006-12-19 09:39:41 UTC

/myCDrive and /myDDrive were just examples.  They should be replaced with the actual mount points for the relevant Windows drive letters.

Comment 9 Jonathan Thomas 2008-10-10 14:21:19 UTC

It would be neat to have this feature. It'd even be useful for the Dolphin KPart in Windows since it is now being deployed on that platform.

Subscribing ppenz so that hopefully this gets moved to the right place.

Comment 10 FiNeX 2008-12-06 12:44:50 UTC

*** Bug 176985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 FiNeX 2008-12-13 11:00:33 UTC

*** Bug 176985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Pedro Carneiro 2008-12-13 13:57:31 UTC

But man, how to make it on Windows?

The kdeaddons-kfile-plugins isn't disponible for Windows! I've reported a bug but they has marked my bug was a duplicate of this! Please, how to make it on Windows? And is this implementable for Plasma Desktop on Windows? See Ya.

Comment 13 Angel Blue01 2009-03-11 17:39:14 UTC

Is this kdeaddons-kfile-plugins package available for KDE 4?