[Usability] Re: Nautilus symlink follow behavior

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 15:16, Christian Neumair wrote:
> You may want to check out
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73937
> containing some initial discussion about whether it's better to "follow"
> a symlink (windows behavior) or directly displaying its contents (UNIX
> behavior).

This has been discussed already, see

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2003-January/msg00030.html

for the whole thread.

To cut a long story short, IIRC the conclusion was: both behaviuors have
pro and cons, so until a clear winner comes out lets stick to the
current behaviour.

> It's a severe issue that needs to be resolved in a decent way.
> In my opinion, we should simply stick to UNIX conventions. It would be a
> good idea to have different folder object properties for different
> symlinks pointing to the same location, since it would be unexpected to
> change "~/media/audio/Black Sabbath"'s dimensions and have the "/usr/
> share/media/audio/Black Sabbath" object changed as well.
> Any comments on that?

Not sure if I understand what you mean... are you saying that you should
be able to open two different "spacial" windows?


ciao
	paolo