Bug 390469 - Symlinks symbolic links: Please add option to create relative or absolute soft links
Summary: Symlinks symbolic links: Please add option to create relative or absolute sof...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 24.08.1
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
URL: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f...
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Reported: 2018-02-14 19:37 UTC by paul.dallas.sv1ui
Modified: 2025-01-07 17:31 UTC (History)
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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.