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

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 9/6/07, kenneth marken <k-marken at online.no> wrote:
> On Friday 07 September 2007 08:35:55 Michael Homer wrote:
> > 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...
>
> wild guess, when kde does a "create new" what it does its copy a existing file
> into place under a new name. or atleast thats how it looks. so can it be that
> it ends up copying the symbolic links  that gobo use rather then the files in
> question?
>
> hmm, only thing i know i have done is to recompile kde-base so as to get smb
> support. outside of that im using binary packages as much as possible.

Works perfectly fine here with the 014-pre && KDE 3.5.6.

-- 
Lucas
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