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IgnorantGuru / spacefm

SpaceFM File Manager
http://ignorantguru.github.com/spacefm/
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usability: difficult to determine the target of a symlink #192

Closed stewie closed 11 years ago

stewie commented 12 years ago

the target of a symlink is not exposed via properties info / permissions

Trippingly, I eventually found a way to determine target, by clicking RENAME (whoodathunk?)

this should be remedied (or at least documented) (I searched. The term "symlink" is entirely absent from the docs)

edit: I just now read, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmanfm-mod/files/ " If a symlink is selected, its target and target's size are displayed in the status bar" If this is the case in spaceFM, perhaps my prefs had the statusbar hidden?

IgnorantGuru commented 12 years ago

Its not possible to hide the status bar of a panel. If a single symlink is selected in the file list, its target will be shown in the status bar. And as you found, in the Rename dialog if Option Target is enabled (the default).

The Info dialog may contain this in the future (pending a possible rewrite of that dialog).

IgnorantGuru commented 11 years ago

Info now shows link target (will be in 0.8.7) (and also allows changing the file's date).