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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: [kde] re-pointing a Desktop link
From:       "Michel D'HOOGE" <list.dhooge () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-09-01 12:06:52
Message-ID: 200609011406.52699.list.dhooge () gmail ! com
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I never thought about this before but this is a *really* interesting 
remark :-)

On Friday 01 September 2006 13:46, Justin Denick wrote:
> Soft links or symbolic links, such as those that are created when dragging
> a file and choosing to link it are not files that can be ediited. 
This is the GUI equivalent to 'ln -s'. And AFAIK there are no means to change 
such a link once created.

> However, 
> if you right-click on the directory you wish to link a files to and choose
> 'create new'>'link to location (URL)' Thes files are .desktop files that
> can be modified.
The counterpart being that you can't use them from the command line.
-- 
Michel
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