re-pointing a Desktop link

[kitts]

On Friday 01 September 2006 17:16 IST, Justin Denick wrote:
> 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.

The drag and drop method seems to be capable of creating either a symbolic 
link or a .desktop file. The choice however, is not with the user but rather 
depends on the targets URL.

When i open my home folder in konqueror with the home kio_slave (home:/) and 
the drag and drop a folder to the desktop to create a link, it actually 
creates a .desktop file link. OTOH when doing the same with the 
unix '/home' path in konq, a symlink is created.

This seems to tell me that KDE fails to differentiate well between local and 
remote filesystems. I am really looking forward to Simon Edwards's 
alternative to the media:/ and system:/ kio-slaves as shown in 
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2231 to be the default.
-- 
Cheers!
kitts
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