Re: Translations of folder names - two proposals

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Gwe, 2004-12-10 at 17:57, Dan Winship wrote:
> We could also borrow an idea from Mac OS aliases and remember the inode
> number of each of the folders, so that if the user does manage to move
> or rename one of them behind GNOME's back, we still have a chance of
> being able to find it and fix the symlink.

Inodes are not static on all file systems when a file is not open. It is
however true enough to be useful especially if combined with a file
attribute marker