nautilus-follow-symlink

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• 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

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).

• 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.

• Nautilus variant: nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz
• Caja variant: caja-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz

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

$ 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)

$ rpmbuild -tb nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz

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.

None so far for the current version.
See also the bug tracker

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

Full Changelog

• Support for GNOME 3
• Support to compile against Caja instead of Nautilus
• Bugfix: Correctly escape paths

• Preliminary support for GNOME 3

• Use stock icon instead of hard-wired icon location
• Provide a configure script by default
• Various other packaging cleanups/fixes

• Support for GNOME 2.2 and above

• Fixed icon location for newer systems

• Bugfix: Show correctly file names with underscores
• Bugfix: Fix compilation on 64bits arches

• First public release