Opened 4 months ago
Last modified 4 months ago
#18729 new enhancement
Tracker: Drag & drop of a link should create another link
| Reported by: | waddlesplash | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1/beta5 |
| Component: | Applications/Tracker | Version: | R1/beta4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
When dragging and dropping a symlink (e.g. from a virtual directory of Applications) onto the Desktop, presently the target file is copied. Instead, I believe another link should be created.
This would be a behavioral change to something that goes all the way back to BeOS, but I think it'd be the right move. I know I've been burned by this before...
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 4 months ago
comment:2 by , 4 months ago
I wanted to file the same issue long time ago but I thought there was already one. IMO, it should be moved to beta5 as it is a recurrent issue (at least on Telegram). +1
comment:3 by , 4 months ago
| Milestone: | Unscheduled → R1/beta5 |
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If I drag&drop a symlink from some folder to another on a different volume, it gets copied. IMO it's only natural if it did the same when doing it from a virtual folder.
So, +1 on this proposal.
How can this be a change from BeOS, when there were no virtual folders in that more simple, innocent times? :)