Annoying behavious of Nautilus when drag+drop as link

[Brad De Vries]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:05 AM, 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" if the target file
> is MyFile.xxx. I really have to get rid of this adding-"Link
> to"-to-every-link-I-create behaviour, because it's a lot of extra work to
> remove that part of the link name for all of the files (I would guess there
> will be hundreds of them, all spread out in a lot of different folders, in
> this particular case since many files could be placed in a few different
> folders and I don't want any copies of anything except for backup). Of
> course there is a lot of ways I could solve this afterwards, like writing a
> script that searches for all those files and removes the first part of their
> names, but it would really be the most convenient thing to not having that
> stuff added to the name in the first place.
>
> Well, I suppose there should follow a question to this, so:
>
> How can I, using Nautilus, create a link that has exactly the same name as
> the target file, that is without the addition of "Link to " in it. I know
> this is possible in Windows, by changing a setting somewhere, and I really
> hope this is possible in Ubuntu/Gnome/Nautilus too.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Johnny Rosenberg

There is a bug report on this with a patch available, if you feel like
getting your hands a bit dirty.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534432

HTH,
Brad.