I built Thunar from git (Thunar 1.0.1git-4458102) and it looks like it doesn't follow symlinks correctly. If I do "ln -s /tmp /test" then the "test" link appears as a symlink in the tree view pane but it's content, I mean "/tmp" isn't displayed in the list view.
(In reply to comment #0) > but it's content, I mean "/tmp" isn't displayed in the list view. Works fine for me. What do you mean by this? How is the content of "/tmp" supposed to be displayed? What you should see is is a symlink with a directory icon. Once you click on it, it should have the same size displayed in the status bar as the target and it should say something like: "test" (440 bytes) link to /tmp Just to make sure this is no issue outside of Thunar: Are you aware that symlinks only work if the link and its target are on the same physical device?
Oh, wait. You're indeed correct. Once you click on the symlink, it shows an empty directory. I'll look into it.
This is exactly what happens. :) Thanks Jannis.
The bug should be fixed with the commit 01f7fc63b2883fbe96620ae6c79ef8ac23af85ff. Please re-open this bug if that's not the case.