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Feature request (or bug?) Drag/drop into '..' doesn't generate symlinks #547

Open JohnCC330 opened 6 years ago

JohnCC330 commented 6 years ago

ISSUE TYPE

GEEQIE VERSION

Geeqie 5a6cd202

OS / DISTRIBUTION

Slackware64-current (mostly)

SUMMARY

Always in the left (file) panel:

Move the name of an image from the bottom (file list) to the '..' indicator in the directory list. That open the dialog, permitting selection of Copy/Move/Symlink. Selecting 'symlink' does not produce any error message, but does not create the symlink. Create or Move do work correctly.

I'd expect (or like) a symlink to be created in the '..' directory

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Move the name of an image from the bottom (file list) to the '..' indicator in the directory list.

caclark commented 6 years ago

It works for me.... but that's not much help.

Perhaps you could look for symlink.desktop. On my system it is at: /usr/local/share/geeqie/applications/symlink.desktop Remove the comment from the line: X-Geeqie-Verbose=true

Look for the file geeqie-symlink. On my system it is at: /usr/local/lib/geeqie/geeqie-symlink

Make it verbose - I shouldn't have to explain that to someone using Slackware :-)

From the output of those we might get a clue about what's gone wrong. Please paste the output back here.

JohnCC330 commented 6 years ago

My apologies for the delay! For some reason I missed the heads-up of the reply.

Verbose was already True - didn't give any useful info.

I've since noticed that the error seems random. Sometimes starting geeqie, the problem is there, sometimes it isn't. If it's there or not, no difference can be noticed from the dialog - no error is reported at all.