hi

I would like to know if it will be possible to make dolphin resolve symlinks instead of following them, let me explain

If I have a symlink todir2 pointing to /dir2 in /dir1 and if in /dir1 I click on todir2 dolphin will go to /dir1/todir2, what I will want it to do is to go to /dir2, that what I call resolving symlinks ... Is it possible to enable this behavior ?

dolphin 1.3
KDE 4.3.3
Kubuntu 9.10

thanks in advance

It sounds as though your symlink is incorrect. Can you post the output of

ls -l path/to/symlink? (include your command in the output, please)

annew wrote:It sounds as though your symlink is incorrect. Can you post the output of

ls -l path/to/symlink? (include your command in the output, please)

No my links are ok, I really can see the content of /dir2 when I am into /dir1/todir2 the problem is not that it doesn't work, the problem is only a display problem I know this behavior could be configured in some shells, just wanted to know if it could be in dolphin toot

Problem is: if you have inside the folder
~/Documents
a symlink to the folder
~/Images/Manual
when you click the symlink you are "teleported" to ~/Images/Manual, but the address bar on Dolphin will show
~/Documents/Manual
instead of the real path. This is counter intuitive and confusing because it shows a fake folder tree. In fact, clicking "up" will move you to ~/Documents if you arrived through the symlink, but will move you to ~/Images if you arrived on any other way. Really confusing.
I know of no way to change this.

RGB wrote:Problem is: if you have inside the folder
~/Documents
a symlink to the folder
~/Images/Manual
when you click the symlink you are "teleported" to ~/Images/Manual, but the address bar on Dolphin will show
~/Documents/Manual
instead of the real path. This is counter intuitive and confusing because it shows a fake folder tree. In fact, clicking "up" will move you to ~/Documents if you arrived through the symlink, but will move you to ~/Images if you arrived on any other way. Really confusing.
I know of no way to change this.

Yes that's exactly the point, thanks
I don't know where and how we could propose such a feature to Dolphin devs ?

I just posted the idea on Brainstorming forum. It is awaiting validation.

Validated
brainstorm.php#idea84173
Lock this thread?

Moult: Thread is locked. Thanks for the suggestion.

If someone wants to discuss the idea please use the Brainstrom-link Moult has posted