Comment 18 for bug 365242

I was definitely hoping, given its target users, that Ubuntu One would support symlinks directly (as actual links, not duplicating or ignoring them). I was really hoping to have a nice way to keep my themes, icons, and various other things in sync between my systems without the pain of something like DropBox where every single icon that would normally be a link to another filename instead becomes a copy, and suddenly a 2mb icon theme takes up 8mb. But if Ubuntu One completely ignores symlinks then it's *even less* usable for that, since all the icons linked to multiple names would go missing entirely. I really think the best solution for the majority of users is to handle symlinks as links, not duplicating or ignoring them, which would also keep it consistent with how most Ubuntu users expect their files to work.