Re: Windows type shortcuts to files and folders

[Johan Kriel]

Jan, yes, that was what I meant. I do use a combination of your mentioned methods at the moment, but it would be nice to have a shortcut facility also. Regards Johan On 03/03/2015 22:12, Jan Claeys wrote: Colin Law schreef op di 03-03-2015 om 09:05 [+0000]: On 2 March 2015 at 15:40, Johan Kriel <j...@hotmail.co.za> wrote: I would like to suggest the availability of shortcuts to files and folders (like those used in Windows) also in addition to the currently available symbolic links. Symbolic links do have their useful place, but they can also be a real pain in the ass on occasion. For example, I regularly have to jump back and forth several times during the day between two or more folders. Using Ubuntu symlinks for this purpose just takes me deeper and deeper into an artificial directory structure with an ever increasing path length. Windows type shortcuts, which jumps directly to another folder using the normal path, would work much better in this case. Please consider this. It would help a lot. Do you mean just a .desktop file that runs nautilus and opens the required folder? I think he means some way to create a special file that when double-clicked "instructs" the *current* Nautilus window/tab to show another directory, and not open a new window/tab. I don't think Nautilus supports this right now (but I might be wrong). OTOH it seams that the reason why he wants this is to switch around between several folders quickly & easily. The existing ways to do the latter currently are: * bookmarked folders; they will appear in the sidebar and are easy to jump to that way — I use this for folders I use very often * open each of the folders you are jumping between in their own tab (or maybe window), so that you can just switch between those tabs (windows) — I usually have one Nautilus window with multiple tabs per "project" or "task" I work on * use the "back" & "forward" buttons in Nautilus; when you hold them down for a moment, a menu drops down with a list of recent locations, similar to the same buttons in web browsers * use the "Recently used" location in the Nautilus sidebar to jump back to a recently used file/location @Johan: are the above methods not sufficient for your use case(s)?

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