Soft links or symbolic links, such as those that are created when dragging a file and choosing to link it are not files that can be ediited. However, if you right-click on the directory you wish to link a files to and choose 'create new'>'link to location (URL)' Thes files are .desktop files that can be modified.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jerome Yuzyk</b> <<a href="mailto:jerome@supernet.ab.ca">jerome@supernet.ab.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Friday 01 September 2006 03:19, David J Brooks wrote:<br>> On Friday 01 September 2006 03:58, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:<br>> > On Friday 01 September 2006 02:33, David J Brooks wrote:<br>> > > On Friday 01 September 2006 03:03, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
<br>> > > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 23:52, David J Brooks wrote:<br>> > > > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 23:16, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:<br>> > > > > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 21:44, Sean M. wrote:
<br>> > > > > > > Right click it, select "Properties", and edit the "URL" tab.<br>> > > > > ><br>> > > > > > The link is to a local file, not a URL.
<br>> > > > ><br>> > > > > Oddly enough, a Universal Resource Locator works locally as well<br>> > > > > as globally, thus the name.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Yes, but there's no URL tab for the properties of a filesystem
<br>> > > > link.<br>> > ><br>> > > Try this.Create a new link like this:<br>> > ><br>> > > 1. right click on the desktop.<br>> > > 2. from the popup menu select Create New > Link to location (URL)
<br>> > > 3. in the URL text entry widget enter '~/j/Finances.ods'<br>> > > 4. click OK.<br>> > > 5. test to assure yourself that it works.<br>> > > 6. delete the old link to bills.ods<br>
> ><br>> > This is what I did ultimately.<br>> ><br>> > > That's the long way around. The short way is to right click on the<br>> > > link, select properties from the popup menu and select the URL tab
<br>> > > from the resulting dialog. Change the content of the URL from<br>> > > ~/j/bills.ods to ~/j/Finances.ods<br>> ><br>> > But I don't have a URL tab!!! Only General, Permissions and Preview
<br>> > tabs. Otherwise I wouldn't have asked my question. :-)<br>> ><br>> > This link was created from a drag-and-drop, and maybe that makes the<br>> > difference.<br>><br>> I just tried it out, and you are correct. A dragged and dropped link has
<br>> no URL tab, and changing the filename on the general tab only renames<br>> the link; it still points to the original file. The only way around I<br>> can see is to create a new link and delete the old, just as you have
<br>> done.<br>><br>> David<br><br>Is this worth filing a bug or wish?<br>___________________________________________________<br>This message is from the kde mailing list.<br>Account management: <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde">
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