nautilus-follow-symlink

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1. Details
2. Description
3. Download
4. Caveats
   1. Known Issues
   2. GNOME 2.22
5. Contribute

Details

• Current version: 1.0.2, released on May 12th 2007 (for GNOME 2.20 and below), GNOME 2.22 users read here to get a version compatible with GNOME 2.22
• Released under the GNU LGPL
• Languages available: English, Spanish, Catalan
• Screenshots montage

Description

nautilus-follow-symlink is a nautilus extension that adds a menu entry on symbolic links to directories which open the pointed directory (the real path).

It does so both when right clicking on a the folder icon or on the contents of an opened symbolic link.

Download

Source code

nautilus-follow-symlink-1.0.2.tar.gz (note it's meant to be built with GCC). See the build instructions if you don't know how to compile it.

Debian packages for sid (unstable)

This packages were built for Debian Sid (Unstable) on May 12th 2007. If you are using a stable version of Debian there's a big chance they won't install. See the Debian build instructions.

• i386: nautilus-follow-symlink_1.0.2-out.1_i386.deb
  The i386 version is usually untested or less tested.
• amd64: nautilus-follow-symlink_1.0.2-out.1_amd64.deb

To build in other versions of Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives, first install the build dependancies...
# apt-get install debhelper gcc libtool pkg-config libc6-dev libglib2.0-dev libnautilus-extension-dev intltool gettext automake1.9 autoconf

Get the source and, e.g. use:
$ tar zxvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.0.2.tar.gz
$ cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.0.2
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -us -uc

Build

There's a handy script in the source (dist) that should create the necessary files to build.

Build summary: (as is common, '$' denotes a command as a normal user and '#' as root)
$ tar zxvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.0.2.tar.gz
$ cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.0.2
$ ./dist
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

Caveats

• That's the first time I use the GNU autotools ([1] [2]) so I may have done something awfully wrong and the plugin might fail to compile on your system.

Known Issues

None so far for the current version.

GNOME 2.22

GNOME 2.22 changed some APIs/ABIs that affect this extension. I can't currently test extensively but this version appears to work correctly in newer versions of GNOME and nautilus, I'll update it ASAP.

Version 1.0.99-pre.1, pre-release with support for GNOME 2.22.
Provided DEBs are for Debian Sid+Experimental (i386 & amd64) and Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron, i386 & amd64). For any other distros/arches you'll have to build from the source.

Ubuntu amd64 package contributed by koro.

Contribute

If you have a contribution (new ideas, fixes, translations...) to make, please contact me.