Re: [Usability] Re: Nautilus symlink follow behavior

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

On Mo, 2003-12-22 at 15:50 +0100, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> 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.
Since most probably no consensus will ever be reached, I wrote a patch
that gives everybody the possibility to change Nautilus' behavior
through GConf. You can find it at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129859

regs,
 Chris