[frameworks-kio] [Bug 456198] Targets of relative symbolic links are resolved incorrectly in the status bar

[Alan Prescott]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456198

--- Comment #21 from Alan Prescott <alanjprescott at gmail.com> ---
I would have thought that it should reflect the output from `ls -l`

Alan Prescott
alanjprescott at gmail.com


On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 17:21, Méven Car <bugzilla_noreply at kde.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456198
>
> --- Comment #20 from Méven Car <meven29 at gmail.com> ---
> (In reply to Alan Prescott from comment #18)
> > You are correct in that the target is the same whether the symlink is
> > absolute or relative  but, personally, I'd have thought that the path
> > displayed would be the same as if I'd typed `ls -l`.
> > If the link always shows as an absolute path then we're missing the
> chance
> > to provider the user with available information which (s)he will have to
> go
> > to a terminal window to find out.
>
> This isn't really practical: if you have expanded folders, with a pointing
> being a relative symlink, how should the path be resolved relative to ?
> The root expanded folder ? The folder containing the the file ?
>
> For instance
> /a/afile
> /b/afile -> ../a/afile
>
> And with / opened with folder opened what should the status bar show when
> hovering over /b/afile ?
> The only systematic clear answer is absolute path.
> We can still tilde collapse it though.
>
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