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nautilus-follow-symlink
Details
- Current version: 1.2.0, released on August 18th 2012
- Compatibility: Nautilus (versions 2.22 and up), Caja
- Released under the GNU LGPL
- Translations available: English, Spanish, Catalan
- New releases announced on my site
IMAGES PLACEHOLDER Example pop-up menu Example montage of usage
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.
Starting with version 1.2.0, there's also a variant for nautilus' fork caja (released as caja-follow-symlink).
Downloads
Binaries
- nautilus-follow-symlink
- nautilus-follow-symlink for Debian Squeeze i386
Dependencies: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libnautilus-extension1 (>= 2.30) - nautilus-follow-symlink for Debian Squeeze amd64
Dependencies: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libnautilus-extension1 (>= 2.30) - nautilus-follow-symlink for Fedora 17 i686
Dependencies: libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) libgio-2.0.so.0 libglib-2.0.so.0 libgobject-2.0.so.0 libgtk-3.so.0 libnautilus-extension.so.1 libpthread.so.0 nautilus-extensions rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) >= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) >= 4.0-1 rtld(GNU_HASH)
- caja-follow-symlink
- caja-follow-symlink for LMDE i386
Dependencies: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libcaja-extension, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0)
Additionally the sources include means to produce easily deb, and rpm packages for other OS/architecture combinations.
Source
- Nautilus variant: nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz
- Caja variant: caja-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz
Generic build instructions
Compile in the standard GNU fashion:
$ tar zxvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz $ cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr # Note the prefix should be the same as nautilus for the translations to work # (or e.g. $ ./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable prefix libnautilus-extension`) $ make # make install
Build DEB package
$ tar zxvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz $ cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0 $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b (or debuild -us -uc -b)
Build RPM package
$ rpmbuild -tb nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz
Older versions of GNOME
Versions of GNOME 2.20 and below should use 1.0.2, which is the last release supporting them.
Look in files/ for the appropriate files. Building older versions is a bit harder, refer to the BUILD
file included in the tarball.
Known Issues
None so far for the current version.
See also the bug tracker
Contribute
If you have a contribution (new ideas, fixes, translations…) to make, please contact me.
Changes
1.2.0 (August, 18th 2012)
- Support for GNOME 3
- Support to compile against Caja instead of Nautilus
- Bugfix: Correctly escape paths
1.2.0-pre.1 (April, 4th 2011)
- Preliminary support for GNOME 3
1.1 (April, 30th 2009)
- Use stock icon instead of hard-wired icon location
- Provide a configure script by default
- Various other packaging cleanups/fixes
1.0.99-pre.1 (May, 4th 2008)
- Support for GNOME 2.2 and above
1.0.2 (May, 12th 2007)
- Fixed icon location for newer systems
1.0.1 (December, 12th 2006)
- Bugfix: Show correctly file names with underscores
- Bugfix: Fix compilation on 64bits arches
1.0 (November, 10th 2006)
- First public release
© 2006-2012 Toni Corvera <outlyer at gmail.com>