Obviously Sebastien Bacher is somebody important who can decide this is not a bug, and I am just a lowly user who has no authoritity.
However, I absolutely feel this is a bug and a serious one. If Ubuntu wants to make it easy for people to move from Windows to Ubuntu, they need to make it easy for users to access their files from the Windows partition. That means it should be easily to create links to their Windows desktop and their "My Documents" folder, etc. Now, for Mr. Bacher, who probably thinks typing "sudo umount /dev/sda#" is easy and obvious, for the average NEW USER this is NOT obvious and it requires a lot of research to simply find out why creating a link doesn't work. A good user interface should first do what the user expects it to do, without expecting him to do a "sudo umount /dev/sda#" because 95% of users will never figure that out. This absolutely is a bug, if you define a bug as functionality that doesn't perform as expected. I'm sure Mr. Bacher feels that everyone should know "sudo umount /dev/sda#" etc. etc. and that is how this issue should be solved. It is that kind of thinking that keeps Linux from being used by the mainstream. The mainstream just wants to create a link that works, they don't want to screw around with a command line interface. Rather than trying to get people to type "sudo umount /dev/sda#" Ubuntu should be trying to accomodate beginners. Creating a link is a very, very basic function that shouldn't require a command line. -- [Hardy] Links to ntfs folders do not work properly on reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
