Ralph Shumaker wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >>.. >> I believe you are trying to make it more complicated than it is! >> Just delete it. With point and right-click, drag-to-trash (yuk), or >> command line rm. The link (only) will be removed -- not the target. Try >> it on links to some test files just to reassure yourself. >.. > > BTW, right-click-drag doesn't work the way you suggest. The very > *moment* you right click, you get a popup menu (no dragging happens).
My suggestion was a bit terse. What I meant, was one way was to use the context menu available when you right-click on a file in your gui-filebrowser (Nautilus, I guess). And another was to use drag-n-drop. >.. > I think Nautilus should identify it as a link. Asking if I want to > delete the link "test.file" would remove all doubt. Any file that is > not a link would not need such a distinction. I believe that would be a good suggestion to post on the Nautilus buglist. It strikes me as cheap/easy to implement and clearly helpful. Whether developers like to hear those suggestions or not is another matter. Some developers think their job is to fend-off user-suggestions. <sigh>. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
