Similar of how it is done in the desktop's folder view (e.g. see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336194) it would be nice to have a "Show Original File" or "Show Original Folder" item in the context menu of symlinks in dolphin.
See also: - Bug 215069 - More advanced symlink handling - Bug 312330 - "Show Original File" option in link popup menu is broken - Bug 376417 - "Open original directory" opened with Gnome Files instead of Dolphin - Bug 368332 - Click on symlinked folder in Folder View could open original directory I see two things that could be done for easier symlink handling in Dolphin and FolderView: 1. Add a context menu "Open file or folder the symlink is pointing to..." 2. In the "General" tab of a file's or folder's Properties dialog there is a "Points to:" text field if the file is symlink. There could be a new "Open" button which takes the user to the file the symlink is pointing to. 3. Add an option to Folder View to open the symlink's target by default as suggested here: Bug 368332 The USE CASE is the following: On my desktop I have links to LibreOffice documents. I occasionally use those or I open the files from their original location. This mixture currently leads to duplicate entries in the "Recent files" menu in LibreOffice (2 different entries which point to the same file). This could be easily avoided by having an option to easily open the symlink's target. I can imagine that there are cases of symlinks to symlinks in which case I would suggest to only go one level deep as the regular usage scenario is probably to have symlinks on the desktop that point to regular files.
This was implemented in Bug 215069 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 215069 ***