Trusty is still affected. This is a *very* annoying bug, could it be fixed in 14.04, please? If the fix is not available soon, some users (including myself) may be forced to install another file manager. (c.f. discussion of gnome bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702301)
N.B. some people beleive this is a medium or low priority issue. However, in setups like the ones mentioned on gnome bugzilla, this bug makes nautilus essentially unusable for many tasks. And it's not merely about "navigating back" or "navigating up". The real problem comes when you open a file *after* navigating the symlink. The application that is lauched will get the dereferenced path, and may calculate its own references from there. I frequenly use LibreOffice documents with several embedded linked files. If the document is fired from the wrong (i.e. dereferenced) location, then all internal references will be screwed, or at least the document will contain different references (some with the unreferenced symlink path, some with the dereferenced path). This is very annoying when you want to move your document to another location, hunting down broken links is a nightmare. The same goes for any application like video or music editing, where a project file contains links to resource or material files. You will have total confusion, two different types of references will be stored in your project. Some applications then behave differently with the references that are "along the project path" from those that seemingly are "external to the project path". Please DO revert this to the earlier, (expected linux standard) symlink behavior in 14.04, as soon as possible. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1184720 Title: Nautilus does not properly navigate symbolic links Status in Nautilus: Fix Released Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “nautilus” source package in Trusty: In Progress Bug description: Impact: Navigating symlinks in nautilus leads to incorrect directories Test case: 1. Create a directory in Home called Folder 2. Right click on Folder in Nautilus and select 'make link' 3. Drag created link to Desktop 4. Double-click on Link to Folder to open it in Nautilus Clicking the back arrow in Nautilus behaves as it should--it takes you back to Desktop, not the parent folder of the target of the link. However, the architecture displayed near the top of the Nautilus window shows the parent directory of the target, not of the link (i.e., it shows [Home][Folder], not [Home][Desktop][Link to Folder] Pressing alt+up also takes you to the parent of the target, not the link. Regression potential: check that creating symlinks and navigating those works correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1184720/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
