https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469551
Bug ID: 469551
Summary: drag symbolic links from gwenview to X
Classification: Applications
Product: gwenview
Version: 22.12.3
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: gwenview-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: private_l...@yahoo.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Dragging a symbolic link of a picture from Gwenview to anywhere will instead
offer the real file (too eager link resolving).
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. symlink any picture and open the symlink in gwenview
2. drag the picture either from full view or from thumbnail overview
3. drop it e.g. in Dolphin or on the folder-tree in gwenview itself
OBSERVED RESULT
Selecting move in the popup-menu will move the original file and leave a broken
symlink behind.
Selecting copy in the popup-menu will insert a full-file-copy at the target
eating up twice the diskspace.
EXPECTED RESULT
Move or copy the symlink as chosen by the popup-menu, same as dragging the
symlink from dolphin would do.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 23.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.2.0-20-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: GE70 2OC\2OD\2OE
System Version: REV:1.0
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This totally messes up my workflow, as I often keep pictures of an event in
folders named by the person who shot them or even the camera / sd-card they
originated from. Then I symlink all photos together into a single overview
folder, where I can sort them by time. Now if I have to adjust the relative
time stamp of one person, I can do it for that specific source folder. Later
on, I might do a selection of pictures for certain groups of people, by
creating another folder for them and only symlink the chosen pictures for them.
This way, I can keep the full set for myself and publish one or more selections
for others. Especially the last step requires copying the symlinks from
gwenview, as I want so see, which pictures I copy and not find their links by
filename. With this regression, I now have to symlink them again - so kind of
creating a link to a link and exploiting this bug to hopefully get a link
directly to the target. If I accidentally chose the wrong target group, I need
to go in there and instead of moving the symlink out, I have to symlink to the
wrong symlink and thereafter delete the symlink, that I just linked to - it
succeeds to warp my mind every time.
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