-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Benedikt Meurer wrote: > Brian J. Tarricone wrote: >> Hey Benny, >> >> xfdesktop allows the user to drag (for example) the 'File System' icon >> from the thunar path bar to the desktop, or to a folder icon on the >> desktop, if for some reason they want to make a symlink to '/'. >> However, thunar-vfs seems to explicitly disallow this, and throws a >> critical warning. >> >> The culprit seems to be line 258 of thunar-vfs-io-ops.c, in >> _thunar_io_ops_link_file(): >> >> _thunar_vfs_return_val_if_fail (!thunar_vfs_path_is_root (source_path), >> FALSE); >> >> Is there any reason for this? I can easily do "ln -s / ~/file-system" >> from a terminal; why doesn't thunar-vfs allow it? > > There's no real technical reason for this. It's more of a usability > feature. Well, it doesn't make sense for the average user (actually for > no user at all) to introduce this kind of cycles in the file system. The > "File System" is the same as the "Harddisk" item on OS X for example. A > special item that refers to the root.
Ok, I think it's silly to go to the effort to disallow it, but I don't really care either way. -brian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFTIFb6XyW6VEeAnsRAkq/AJ4ny3fKfMtGl4KwZ5/kLgIYhTq9hQCdFLzj 8I+lRqgoqa8AE1sJAS5iuRQ= =xCSU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev