[PATCH] Do not resolve symlinks when clicking on them

Andras Mantia amantia at kde.org
Thu Mar 9 06:33:52 GMT 2006


Andras Mantia wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  I expect this to be a controversial patch, but it is needed to achieve
> consistency within Konqueror itself. The problem is described in
> http://bugs.kde.org/123230 . The reason why I changed here and not in
> the sidebar is because it would be still inconsistent, as the user
> could enter the directory by typing the path in the location bar.
>  I have no idea why the symlink resolving was needed, maybe it was
> useful when running applications, but KFileItem::run anyway uses the
> destination, not the link.
> 
> Andras
> 
In case there are no objections, I will commit the fix on Monday, so it will
be in 3.5.2.

Andras
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