[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 14557] New: Copying symbolic links in Thunar breaks relative links

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14557

            Bug ID: 14557
           Summary: Copying symbolic links in Thunar breaks relative links
    Classification: Xfce Core
           Product: Thunar
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: General
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: pkay42 at gmail.com
                CC: benny at xfce.org, hjudt at xfce.org
  Target Milestone: 1.8.0

If you use Thunar to copy a symbolic (relative) link from one location to
another, you break the link.

This has several problems:

1.  This behavior is different from the expected behavior of 'cp' - 'cp' will
dereference links and copy the original file to the new location
2.  If you are copying a directory tree, you will probably not notice that a
broken link was created

Proposed solutions:

1.  Default to default cp behavior:  create files instead of links

2.  Launch a popup that asks the user what they want to do:  Copy Link (breaks
link)?  Copy Link (links to different file)?  Create new Link to Original File?
 Copy Original File?
     (note that only one of the first two options will be valid)

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