When you create a link to a folder on the desktop, then open the folder using 
the link, you are browsing at ~/.nautilus/desktop/folder, which confuses the 
heck out of the tree view. The tree view will no longer highlight the proper 
folder in the tree and drilling down folders will not be expanded or 
highlighted in the tree either. I'm assuming this has to do with the fact that 
the .nautilus folder is hidden.

I think there might actually be a few problems / solutions here. The first is 
discussed elsewhere about the desktop directory being hidden which causes many 
annoyances other than just this. The next would be have the link resolved to 
the "real" path before viewing it. The last would be to have the tree view show 
hidden folders if they are currently being viewed in the window.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:18 -------

The original reporter (greg@brim.net) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.