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

[Michael Dickson]

On Friday 07 September 2007 3:48:43 am 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.

Nice catch Jonas.  That does work.  Of course, this prevents any KOffice items 
from showing up...

Natually, using hard links to the individual files (with the exception of 
emptydir) in .source works fine.

I've opened KDE Bug #149628 on this issue, referencing this thread.