On Friday 01 September 2006 03:19, David J Brooks wrote: > 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 Is this worth filing a bug or wish? ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.