[solved] GUI file manager with support for Links

[jamapii]

[Moderator note: changed title from Link to clarify the thread's purpose. -Hu]

Hello

Does any recent Linux file manager GUI exist that supports any kind of Links?

e.g. it might deal with, and create, symbolic links (in a non tedious way), or handle some other kind of links similar to waht Windows has.

I'm sure these things used to exist.

For Gnome (Nautilus) it seems that Alt-(Drag'n'Drop) would do the trick. But AFAIK even Windows users don't use Drag n Drop at all, ordinary people use Right-click+Copy or Cut ... (This does not lead to any linking feature anywhere) and for linking they use "Send to Desktop" (No such thing exists in Gnome).

Dolphin has a way to make symbolic links, but if you tell anyone to use this, you might as well tell them to use xterm and bash, that is probably easier.

Is there an "alternative" GUI (mate, xfce, cinnamon, whatever) that does Links? (if it is "alternative" I think it must deal in native Unix symbolic links)

thanks

[fedeliallalinea]

You can better explain what do you need links for? If you need link for open a program then it's better to create a dektop file.
In dolphin for example you can install a service for it.
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[Jaglover]

Thunar has it under Edit menu, but no keyboard shortcut.
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[jamapii]

Hello

thanks a lot.

This is for people who come from Windows, or otherwise don't want to use bash, but want Links.

So there is Drag'n'drop variations (Gnome with Alt, lxde with Shift+Ctrl). Thunar/xfce has Edit/Make Link, and it has Right-Click/Send To/Desktop. One could install Thunar and use it to make links. Hopefully it uses the standard Desktop even when using Gnome/Ubuntu/etc.

Maybe the "create a desktop file" is too complicated. I remember Windows PIF files were only used by geeks to access arcane compatibility settings.