File Manager, Right-click folder, "make link" doesn't put link in parent folder

[Michael Cole]

Hi, thanks for working on this project. Awesome idea.

In "File Browser", I want to make a link to a folder. So I

1) highlight the folder
2) right-click
3) "Make Link"
4) expect link to appear next to folder.

Instead of 4) the link appears the folder in the location bar. This is confusing to me, I had to hunt around for it.

This is a bug because the context-menu doesn't use the context of the current folder when creating the new link. It incorrectly uses the context of the location bar.

Thanks.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

You are using list-view?

[Michael Cole (ubuntu-michaelcole)]

Yes, in list view.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * Could you take a screenshot showing the issue?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the behaviour on karmic seems to be correct

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I can confirm the behavior in Ubuntu 9.10 is as you would expect it. Closing the bug then.