making link from Nautilus doesn't use the correct working directory

[Patrik Nilsson]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When making a link from nautilus and using it from another folder doesn't set the correct working folder.

Example steps to reproduce:
1) Find a file and make a link to it by right clicking in nautilus.
2) Move the link-file to desktop.
3) Double clicking runs the action, but it is not the correct working folder

The working folder should be where the file is, not, as in this example, on desktop.

Always reproducible.

I use some programs that depend on being started in the folder where data is. This is not a problem if there is only one data file, but it is, when there are several files necessary such as an IDE.

Ubuntu 11.04

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the stable release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Patrik Nilsson (nipatriknilsson)]

The bug is still there when you use LibreOffice Writer and tested with the live cd.
1) Create a Writer document. Write "test" into it and save it into "Documents"
2) Quit Writer.
3) Make a link to your document.
4) Writer accepts to open both the original file and the link-file and start to edit them both.

I'm not able to use any software to check the original reported error with the live cd.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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Confirmed in Ubuntu 17.10.

I've reported the bug upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/290

Proper GitLab Issues tracking is blocked by bug 1603679

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* bug 1745210

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Please could a Bug Control member mark this as Won't Fix? Thanks :)

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( see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/290#note_80496 )