On Thursday 22 February 2007 14:07, Alexander Larsson wrote: > Several people have proposed using symlinks like this. It certainly > makes it very easy to use from a shell. However, there is imho a clear > risk that such filenames (like ~/.mdk-folders/.desktop/) escape to the > user in an unresolved form and end up exposing internal implementation > details in e.g. the file chooser. Thats why I avoided them in my > version.
Symlinks also have the problem of sometimes not being available. I have seen several questions asking how to use a home directory (and more specifically KDE) mounted from a remote host, where the remote host is having a broken/incomplete implementation of CIFS (usually a Windows system) and can'tdo symlinks. Sure, it is just a small percentage, but if one can avoid it, maybe one should. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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