Re: [gcmd-dev] file properties: symlink target

[Piotr Eljasiak]

> Looks like it always shows the absolute path.

Yes, it does.

> However, there are many occasions where it's important to know if the link is 
> a relative or absolute one (e.g., if you copy or burn whole directory trees). 
> Actually that's often the only piece of information i want to know. So far i 
> need to invoke mc or a shell, then.
> Would it be difficult to modify, or is it inbuilt in some gnome-vfs module ?

It's not difficult to modify the code as it is not gnome-vfs
dependent...

The main problem with computing the relative path is that there may be
more than one solution. How to resolve disambiguities - choose the
shortest path?

How it is done in the other file managers? What about GUI?


Piotr