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Bug 141602 - Emblems not showing up when using a symlink
Emblems not showing up when using a symlink
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135118
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Backgrounds Emblems and Themes
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-05-01 21:47 UTC by Christian Rudh
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Christian Rudh 2004-05-01 21:47:02 UTC 
Description of Problem:
Emblems set on files and folders will not be shown
if you access a folder through a symlink instead
of the normal way. 

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Browse to a folder and set some emblems.
2. Make a symlink to that folder.
3. Browse to the folder using the symlink.

Actual Results:
No emblems will be shown. If you set some, they
will not be shown if you browse to the folder
without using the symlink.

Expected Results:
The same emblems should be shown.

How often does this happen? 
Always.

Additional Information:
If you make additional symlinks to the same
folder, the same will happen.
Comment 1 Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2004-05-02 02:31:30 UTC 
I set the severity to ENHANCEMENT as it seems not to be a bug.
Comment 2 Christian Rudh 2004-05-02 09:15:08 UTC 
I don't understand why this isn't classified as a bug?

An example:
http://christian.rudh.se/Screenshot.png

In that screenshot I have browsed to ~/icons both through my home icon on the
desktop and through 3 symlinks created on the desktop. The default behavior to
me should be that they show the same emblems and backgrounds? Nautilus in 2.4
did so. 

And doesn't this brake the spatial behavior too? You have 4 different "views" of
the same object.
Comment 3 Tim Herold 2004-05-09 05:46:02 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135118 ***