Annoying behavious of Nautilus when drag+drop as link

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On 07/17/2008 11:28 PM, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:05:28 +0200
> "Johnny Rosenberg" <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> When, in Nautilus, I drag a file from one map to another and press
>> Ctrl+Shift when releasing the mouse button, a link will be created in the
>> destination folder, but the really annoying thing is that the destination
>> link will be called something like "Link to Myfile.xxx"
> 
> I had never noticed this, since I usually make links with "ln -s" - it
> really *is* annoying, isn't it? Not to mention stupid, since among other
> things it introduces spaces into the link name... which means more
> work/attention if writing scripts etc.
> 
> I know that you specified nautilus, but you might consider using a
> different file manager for this task. I use the Rox filer:
> 
> sudo apt-get install rox-filer
> 

Xubuntu comes with Thunar which has a bulk renamer:
http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentation/bulk_renamer

sudo apt-get install thunar

It will pull in the dependencies and take up about 15.4MB:

$ sudo apt-get install thunar
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dbus-x11 libexo-0.3-0 libthunar-vfs-1-2 libxfce4mcs-client3
  libxfce4mcs-manager3 libxfce4util4 libxfcegui4-4 thunar-data xfce4-panel
Suggested packages:
  thunar-archive-plugin thunar-media-tags-plugin thunar-volman
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dbus-x11 libexo-0.3-0 libthunar-vfs-1-2 libxfce4mcs-client3
  libxfce4mcs-manager3 libxfce4util4 libxfcegui4-4 thunar thunar-data
  xfce4-panel
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6180kB of archives.
After unpacking 15.4MB of additional disk space will be used.