Comments on: Ubuntu Desktop File/Folder Shortcut

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:33:32 +0000

Not working for me either – the original file is not edited when I edit the one that is supposed to be a shortcut.

Here is how I made a shortcut on my desktop to a folder in my file system: Right Click on the folder, choose “Send To”, choose “Desktop (Create Link)

By: Sumanth

Sumanth — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:14:04 +0000

Super!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:06:34 +0000

You call that EASY !? How ’bout a right click option on the desktop, or, even better, a right click option on the folder button in Gnome ?

I’m sorry, but Ubuntu is still EONS away from Windows regarding ease-of-use. And I say that despite being an (occasional (but frequent)) Ubuntu user.

Not to say anything about when you need to configure something more complicated inside its guts. Then, it is bye-bye GUI !

It seems that the Ubuntu developers just don’t seem to be able to learn from mistakes and shortcomings (their own & others’, including Windows). Small wonder that, despite being no-cost, Ubuntu only has a market share of 1,7% (or something ?) on the market.

But thanks for the tip!

By: Driskell

Driskell — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:14:24 +0000

Lets say you Drag the Documents folder from your Home Folder to the desktop, and hold Shift+Ctrl to create a link.

If you then open that link on the Desktop – it doesn’t link, it opens, and the path is actually shown as /home/user/Desktop/Documents/

So the folders might be the same on the underlying filesystem but the path isn’t.

Symbolic links work like Junction Points on Windows – not shortcuts.

It would be nice to create a ShortCut as in some instances it is good to actually see where the target actually is – and sometimes I want to go to the parent folder to do things (rarely) but at the moment I have to browse to it manually lol

By: Eastwood

Eastwood — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:47:41 +0000

What do you mean it doesn’t open the original folder? What happens when you double-click on the shortcut?

By: doesntwork

doesntwork — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:32:52 +0000

it does’nt work for me xd…
it’s just like normal copy and paste, because when i open the shorcut folder, it’s not open the original folder like in windows…

By: stolendestiny

stolendestiny — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:48:34 +0000

This was so cool!