Comment 3 for bug 86976

upstream closed the bug with this comment:

"I cannot reproduce this on nautilus 3.6. It works as expected: custom icons set
on the target folder subfolders are shown when I open the symlink.

It's worth noting that nautilus now opens the target path when a symlink is
double-clicked. But even if I manually enter the symlink path into the location
entry, the custom icons are shown as expected."

since we have 3.6 in raring, closing the bug