Sort by type should thread symlinks like regular files

Submitted by inf..@..ned.gg

Assigned to Jannis Pohlmann

Link to original bug (#10712)

Description

Thunar shows the "Type" for symlinks as "Link to $target_path". But the path has nothing to do with the actual type of the file, and renders this column useless to sort by.

GNOME nautilus behaves correctly, resolving the symlink and showing the type as "Link to $target_type", e.g. "Link to Video". Sorting works much better like this.

(The current behaviour makes it very painful to work with e.g. files controlled by git-annex, since these show up as "Link to ../../.git/annex/$SHA256" and makes it impossible to sort by the file type.)

Version: 1.6.3