Re: ANN: GWorkspace 0.6.5

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2004-06-06 03:16:27 +0300 Michael Baehr <mbaehr@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 01:36:55 +0200, Sascha Erni, .rb <rb@nggalai.com> wrote:
> > Hi Enrico,
> >
> > Excellent news! Works like a charm, and I am particularly fond of the
> > splitting. Inspector.app is great, and I like the new Finder. Great
> > work, it is much appreciated. :)
>
> <snip>
>
> As far as the desktop portion is concerned, it doesn't seem to
> understand symlinks (in the recycler or on the desktop itself).  I
> would love, for example, to have an icon for my home directory there
> but that does not appear to work at the moment.

If you mean that ctrl-dragging the icon of your home directory on the desktop doesn't 
create a symlink, the problem is in NSFileManager, that creates hard links, not symlinks. 
Try a "ln -s"; fswatcher will detect this and your icon will appear on the fly.