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

[kenneth marken]

On Friday 07 September 2007 08:48:43 Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> 2007/9/7, kenneth marken <k-marken at online.no>:
> > 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.
>
> I think the difference in setup is that those that get the symlink has
> other templates installed, which would make SymlinkProgram expand
> every directory and make the files links, instead of how Michael (and
> I) have it where the link is /System/Links/Shared/templates ->
> /Programs/KDE-Base/3.5.6/Shared/templates and
> /System/Links/Shared/templates/.source/foo is a real document.
>
> Konqueror should read the link, so this should be reported as a bug
> upstream.

should be simple to test. im guessing that disabling say koffice should fix 
it?