Version: (using KDE 4.3.2) Installed from: Fedora RPMs The ability to see the destination of a symlink is absolutely vital functionality in a file browser. All it needs is an extra column in the detailed list view. This option has been present in konqueror since as far back as 2001, maybe earlier. This functionality should be added (as an option) to Dolphin too. I do not think the sky will fall in and new users will have nervous breakdowns if they are given the opportunity to add an extra column to view symlink targets when they right click and get the available columns list, in detailed list view. I have been waiting and waiting for this feature to be reimplemented, but it does not even seem to be on the agenda. I would like to make it clear this is not an item for the wishlist. The lack of this feature is a bug.
Thanks for the report - I'll reassign it to Dolphin because Konqueror uses Dolphin's code for file management. Note that bug 169904, bug 171899 are related.
thanks guys, if this bug can be fixed soon i think I'll probably cry (with happiness :)
SVN commit 1124982 by freininghaus: Provide the destination of a symbolic link as a column in Dolphin's (and Konqueror's) Details View in KDE SC 4.5. This is based on the changes to KFileItemDelegate from commit 1124981. FEATURE: 211690 M +17 -5 dolphindetailsview.cpp M +12 -4 dolphinmodel.cpp M +1 -0 dolphinmodel.h M +1 -0 panels/folders/paneltreeview.cpp M +1 -1 settings/dolphin_detailsmodesettings.kcfg WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1124982
This feature will be in KDE SC 4.5. At the moment, there are two issues left: 1. Dolphin does not remember if the "Link Destination" column is enabled or not. 2. If the column is enabled by the user, it is only shown if the user manually shrinks the "Name" column. We'll try to fix this before 4.5.0 is released.
Thats fantastic, thank you very much guys. This one fix will go a long way towards bringing dolphin up and konqueror back up to a standard at which they might actually be usable as file browsers! With this fixed, the only other thing that really cripples the re-implemented kde4 konqueror, is the way the left folder pane does not update properly when directories are added or removed. But perhaps thats already fixed in cvs, or will be soon. It will be so nice to have a usable file browser again... so... thanks again for getting this symlink feature added back in, this does get us a lot closer to having usable file manager again!
Thank you! I see it on my beta2 copy of 4.5 and will try to look at your changes to see if I can learn more about adding other columns to Dolphin
*** Bug 246206 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***