Create symlink on Desktop

[neofright]

Hi,

Thank you for this fantastic service.

I noticed in the code you have the function MakeSymbolicLinkToDesktop and the logic around it to check if (as I understand it) if the first component of the path equals /Volumes then the symlink should be created on the Desktop.

I have been creating directory symlinks on /Volumes/tank for an smb mounted ZFS dataset but I noticed that the symlinks created are in the form of "%s symlink".

(I am an XFCE refugee now using macOS and I had become accustomed to Thunar's behaviour of "Send to > Desktop (Create Link)".)

My questions are:

1. Is this expected behaviour for this path location e.g. /Volumes/tank/Music/albums/Artist/Album
2. If the answer to 1 is yes: Would changing the default behaviour be as simple as replacing the calls to MakeSymbolicLink with MakeSymbolicLinkToDesktop in SLAppDelegate.m?

Thanks in advance

[nickzman]

Yes and yes. Links are made on the desktop only in the situations where (1) the item being linked is a volume, assuming the user didn't change the default mount path from /Volumes to somewhere else (which is very uncommon), or (2) the item's parent directory is read-only for the user. This is consistent with the Finder's behavior when you try to make an alias of some item.