Re: How to get "Up" to work with symlinks

[Olaf Frączyk <olaf cbk poznan pl>]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 17:23, Petri Kanerva wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 12:38, Olaf Frączyk wrote:
> > OK. But users are really confused if they jump to directory, they didn't
> > want. So, maybe some option to disable/remove "Up" button would solve
> > this problem.
> 
> But if you remove the "Up" button, how can you get to the parent
> directory, if it hasn't been visited before? You could always use the
> tree-sidebar, but this might also be confusing to these users.
> The users probably click on the users home icon on the desktop. So it
> open them in /home/user/. So how do they get to / without the "Up"
> button? Do they have to alwas type "/" to the textbox?
> 
> IMO, in any case removeing the "Up" button is a bad idea.
Yes, you are right. I hasn't thought about the problem you have
mentioned above. 

> > Another thing is, that the "Location" shows the real directory, not the
> > symlinked one. This also makes confusion.
> 
> In this I agree with you. It really should show the symlinked path, not
> the actual...
> 
I am going to make a bug report for it. Users get crazy when they see
/mnt/sda5/vol7/... and they were to be in /home/projects/..... :)

Regards,

Olaf
>  Petri
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> I refuse to grow up
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