It is unreasonable to expect the entire Windows using community to avoid a mechanism that is part of the Windows operating system. The proper solution, distasteful as it may be, is to implement code which facilitates this *hack* (I always think of a hack as a desirable gem of programming prowess, but I digress). Otherwise, you have a product that does not really work in the Windows world.
wrb > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Wojcik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:24 AM > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: WRB - Observations > > rgheck wrote: > > William R. Buckley wrote: > >> > >> I noticed that when trying to browse for the graphic file > of a figure > >> inserted into a document via the LyX user interface, and > upon trying > >> to utilise a shortcut (as the means to more efficiently select the > >> proper directory that is to be browsed), it happens that > LyX copies > >> the shortcut to the Graphics dialog box, instead of opening the > >> directory indicated by the shortcut. I believe this > behavior is not > >> what LyX developers intend. Rather, double-clicking on > the shortcut > >> should result in an opening of the indicated directory. > >> > > If so, then this is a bug in Qt for Windows. Soft links > work perfectly > > fine in Linux. > > I don't think this is a bug in Qt, though arguably it's a > missing feature. Shortcuts are not first-class filesystem > objects in Windows. > They're files that are treated in a special manner by Windows > Explorer. > > The real bug is that Microsoft introduced them in the first > place, rather than using a proper filesystem mechanism; and > the fix is to avoid them whenever possible, since they're a > clumsy, half-implemented hack. > > The closest analog to soft links in Windows are NTFS > junctions, and they work fine with Qt and LyX, as far as I can see. > > -- > Michael Wojcik > > >
