If you double-click on a circular symbolic link, Nautilus changes directory one
level deeper into the same folder.

In contrast, the Mac OS doesn't change the directory, so that a symbolic link to
your present location leaves you in your present location. Are we deliberately
not doing likewise?


(Please rephrase summary if you can do better)

* REPRODUCIBLE: Always

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1. On your Desktop, create a New Folder, say, "untitled folder 1"
2. Right-click on it, and choose "Create Link"
3. Drag the link you just made into the "untitled folder 1" folder
4. Open the "untitled folder 1" folder
5. Double-click on the "link to untitled folder 1" link a few times.

* ACTUAL RESULTS: 

 "untitled folder 1" is appended to your path each time you double-click on the
link in step #5.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-11 18:09:47 ----

By the way, I could have sworn a bug exists on this --- and that I nearly filed
a duplicate in my first month at Eazel --- but I couldn't find it after querying
for "link" and skimming through 136 bugs.



------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-03-11 18:13:36 ----

I don't specifically remember seeing an earlier bug on this. It is obviously 
silly behavior, but fortunately not harmful.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-26 11:13:20 ----

QA Assigning to self.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:13 -------