https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14557
Bug ID: 14557
Summary: Copying symbolic links in Thunar breaks relative links
Classification: Xfce Core
Product: Thunar
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Medium
Component: General
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Target Milestone: 1.8.0
If you use Thunar to copy a symbolic (relative) link from one location to
another, you break the link.
This has several problems:
1. This behavior is different from the expected behavior of 'cp' - 'cp' will
dereference links and copy the original file to the new location
2. If you are copying a directory tree, you will probably not notice that a
broken link was created
Proposed solutions:
1. Default to default cp behavior: create files instead of links
2. Launch a popup that asks the user what they want to do: Copy Link (breaks
link)? Copy Link (links to different file)? Create new Link to Original File?
Copy Original File?
(note that only one of the first two options will be valid)
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