D10990: Add "Open symlink destination folder" into symlink's context menu

Roman Inflianskas noreply at phabricator.kde.org
Sat Mar 3 14:06:12 GMT 2018


rominf added a comment.


  In D10990#217438 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D10990#217438>, @markg wrote:
  
  > I'm not so sure if this is a feature worth having.
  >  Dolphin also works under windows, it doesn't know symlinks (something like it, yes, but it's not a symlink as it is under linux).
  >
  > Also, is it worth exposing that technical detail (symlink is quite technical) to the user?
  >  Is a good solid reason for having this? Or would this just satisfy a edge case used by very few people (if ever)?
  
  
  Suppose I have file `A` and symlink `B -> A`. I want to copy file `A` to the FAT formatted flash drive using symlink `B`. I get an error because FAT doesn't support symlinks. Ooops... Leaked abstraction.

REPOSITORY
  R318 Dolphin

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D10990

To: rominf, #dolphin
Cc: elvisangelaccio, markg, #dolphin
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