[gobolinux-users] KDE: Create new.... symlink???

[Michael Homer]

On 9/7/07, Andy Feldman <nereusren at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2007 18:43, Michael Homer wrote:
> > On 9/7/07, Michael Dickson <mike at communicatezing.com> wrote:
> > > I just noticed that when I right-click on the Desktop and choose
> > > Create New -> "..."
> > > the resulting file is a symlink, not the real file!
> >
> > What's the "..." here? Where does the symlink point? I can't duplicate
> > this here.
>
> I get the same thing. If I right-click in Konqueror file browser and
> choose "Create New" > "Text File...", it creates a symlink
> to /Programs/KDE-Base/3.5.3/Shared/templates/.source/TextFile.txt. Similarly
> with all the other file types that appear in that section of the "Create New"
> submenu. It's not restricted to the entries from KDE-Base: Creating a new
> office text document makes a link
> to /Programs/KOffice/1.6.1/Shared/templates/.source/TextDocument.kwt.
It doesn't for me for any of them (ls -l confirms it), and so far as I
can tell I have basically the same setup as the original poster,
although there are a couple of KDE components that are still at 3.5.6
(-Network is one, I don't remember the other). So I can't explain
what's going on for everybody else...
-Michael