Annoying behavious of Nautilus when drag+drop as link

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/7/19 Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>:

> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 22:44 +0200, Loïc Grenié wrote:
> > To the point: better not to name "Link to " if it can be helped
>
> I don't make my scripts always deal with spaces, either. Or deal with
> command line errors gracefully, etc. I also consider them broken :)
>
> Not to quote is fine for personal quick-and-dirty scripts, when you know
> you can count on input w/o special characters. But for professsional
> scripts that shall be distributed it is inexcusable, because users WILL
> create spaces in filenames. IMHO there is little point in avoiding "Link
> to" at all costs by default.
>
> Well, different people – different opinions. In my opinion it's very
important, plus that I actually hate that "Link to" thing. It irritated me
in Windows, but fortuntaely I found out how to get rid of it there. It
irritates me just as much in Linux, and I want this solved. Going back to
Windows is NOT an option… I will try some of the suggestions I already got
here and I want to thank you all for replying.

Since different people have different opinions, I wouldn't mind a few
checkboxes somewhere among the settings for Nautilus, easily accessible:

"☒ Add text to name of link: ________________________
           ☒ Before (Example: Text=´Link to ´, File name=´My File.txt´ →
Link name= ´Link to My File.txt´)
           ☐ After (Example: Text=´ (Link)´, File name=´My File.txt´ → Link
name= ´My File (Link).txt´)"

or something like that. Unchecking everything would, of course, give me the
result I'm looking for.

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