nautilus-follow-symlink

Projects index

Index

1. Details
2. Description
3. Download
   • Binaries
     • Debian Squeeze (Stable)
     • Fedora
     • Caja on LMDE i386
   • Source
     • Build instructions
     • DEB build instructions
     • RPM build instructions
4. Older versions of GNOME
5. Known Issues
6. Changes
7. Contribute

Details

• Current version: 1.2.0, released on August 18th 2012
   Compatibility: Nautilus (versions 2.22 and up), Caja
• Released under the GNU LGPL
• Translations available: English, Spanish, Catalan
• New releases announced on: freshmeat, my site
• 

Description

nautilus-follow-symlink is a nautilus extension that adds a menu entry on symbolic links to directories which open the pointed directory (the real path).

It does so both when right clicking on a the folder icon or on the contents of an opened symbolic link.

Starting with version 1.2.0, there's also a variant for nautilus' fork caja (released as caja-follow-symlink).

Downloads

Binaries

nautilus-follow-symlink

nautilus-follow-symlink for Debian Squeeze i386

Dependencies: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libnautilus-extension1 (>= 2.30)

nautilus-follow-symlink for Debian Squeeze amd64

Dependencies: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libnautilus-extension1 (>= 2.30)

nautilus-follow-symlink for Fedora 17 i686

Dependencies: libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) libgio-2.0.so.0 libglib-2.0.so.0 libgobject-2.0.so.0 libgtk-3.so.0 libnautilus-extension.so.1 libpthread.so.0 nautilus-extensions rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) >= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) >= 4.0-1 rtld(GNU_HASH)

caja-follow-symlink

caja-follow-symlink for LMDE i386

Dependencies: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libcaja-extension, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0)

Additionally the sources include means to produce easily deb, and rpm packages for other OS/architecture combinations.

Source

Nautilus variant: nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz

Caja variant: caja-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz

Generic build instructions

Compile in the standard GNU fashion:

$ tar zxvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz
$ cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr # Note the prefix should be the same as nautilus for the translations to work
                            # (or e.g. $ ./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable prefix libnautilus-extension`)
$ make
# make install

Build DEB package

$ tar zxvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz
$ cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b
  (or debuild -us -uc -b)

Build RPM package

$ rpmbuild -tb nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz

Older versions of GNOME

Versions of GNOME 2.20 and below should use 1.0.2, which is the last release supporting them.
Look in in files/ for the appropriate files. Building older versions is a bit harder, refer to the BUILD file included in the tarball.

Known Issues

None so far for the current version.

Contribute

If you have a contribution (new ideas, fixes, translations...) to make, please contact me.

Changes

Full Changelog

1.2.0 (August, 18th 2012)

• Support for GNOME 3
• Support to compile against Caja instead of Nautilus
• Bugfix: Correctly escape paths

1.2.0-pre.1 (April, 4th 2011)

• Preliminary support for GNOME 3

1.1 (April, 30th 2009)

• Use stock icon instead of hard-wired icon location
• Provide a configure script by default
• Various other packaging cleanups/fixes

1.0.99-pre.1 (May, 4th 2008)

• Support for GNOME 2.2 and above

1.0.2 (May, 12th 2007)

• Fixed icon location for newer systems

1.0.1 (December, 12th 2006)

• Bugfix: Show correctly file names with underscores
• Bugfix: Fix compilation on 64bits arches

1.0 (November, 10th 2006)

First public release