On Friday 08 September 2006 10:31, John Andersen wrote:
Open Kong, Drag folder to desktop, and when you let up the mouse button answer "Link here" to the prompt.
This isn't actually a shortcut, but a symlink. While conceptually similar, they are fundamentally different. For example, you can't change file permissions for a symlink: stephan@owl:/tmp> ln -s ~/.ssh bar stephan@owl:/tmp> l bar lrwxrwxrwx 1 stephan users 18 2006-09-08 10:33 bar -> /home/stephan/.ssh stephan@owl:/tmp> chmod 0600 bar stephan@owl:/tmp> l bar lrwxrwxrwx 1 stephan users 18 2006-09-08 10:33 bar -> /home/stephan/.ssh A true desktop shortcut is a .desktop file with an arbitrary amount of metadata in the file describing, e.g., the folder icon, label under different languages, etc. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts