Re: [kde] re-pointing a Desktop link

On Friday 01 September 2006 03:58, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
On Friday 01 September 2006 02:33, David J Brooks wrote:
On Friday 01 September 2006 03:03, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 23:52, David J Brooks wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 23:16, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 21:44, Sean M. wrote:
Right click it, select "Properties", and edit the "URL" tab.

The link is to a local file, not a URL.

Oddly enough, a Universal Resource Locator works locally as well as
globally, thus the name.

Yes, but there's no URL tab for the properties of a filesystem link.

Try this.Create a new link like this:

1. right click on the desktop.
2. from the popup menu select Create New > Link to location (URL)
3. in the URL text entry widget enter '~/j/Finances.ods'
4. click OK.
5. test to assure yourself that it works.
6. delete the old link to bills.ods

This is what I did ultimately.

That's the long way around. The short way is to right click on the link,
select properties from the popup menu and select the URL tab from the
resulting dialog. Change the content of the URL from ~/j/bills.ods to
~/j/Finances.ods

But I don't have a URL tab!!! Only General, Permissions and Preview tabs.
Otherwise I wouldn't have asked my question. :-)

This link was created from a drag-and-drop, and maybe that makes the
difference.

I just tried it out, and you are correct. A dragged and dropped link has no
URL tab, and changing the filename on the general tab only renames the link;
it still points to the original file. The only way around I can see is to
create a new link and delete the old, just as you have done.

David
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