https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318 User danielstefanmader@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318#c2 Daniel Mader changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Normal |Major Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Priority|P5 - None |P2 - High Resolution|UPSTREAM | Version|Factory |Beta 2 --- Comment #2 from Daniel Mader 2008-10-14 02:48:24 MDT --- I am reopening this bug since the behavior is not gone even in 4.1.2. The file dialog is a shame with this behavior. Neither is it possible to choose an existing file for renaming when saving, nor can one choose several files for opening, e.g. in Kate or the like. The responsible person seems to think that this behavior is what users expect in a single click environment. I totally disagree. Even then, one would expect to be able to select and then click OK to open, imo. I am increasing severity, too, because it potentially leads to file loss when existing files are overwritten accidentially! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318 Stephan Binner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|KDE4 Applications |KDE4 Workspace -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318 User drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318#c5 David Rankin changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com --- Comment #5 from David Rankin 2008-11-16 20:42:23 MST --- Folks -- This is still *not* fixed in Beta 5! In KDE4, I had already saved a file and I wanted to save another with a like name. My thought was to choose the previously saved filename and then add -01 at the end of the name and save. As soon as I chose the filename, the dialog immediately closed, selecting the original filename and then immediately proposed to overwrite the very file I wanted to keep. This is the nuttiest half-Gnome like dialog behavior I have ever seen in KDE and it goes to the very core of a desktop. A save as dialog has two purposes: (1) allow the user to select a previous file name to 'save as', or to change the name and then save the file contents under the modified file name and (2) to allow the user to type in an arbitrary name and then save the file contents under the new arbitrary name. KDE4's file save dialog has been rendered incapable of preforming this, the most basic of desktop tasks. The inability to allow you to select an existing file to put the name in the filename text-box so that you can modify the name and then save the file under the new name is fundamental to productivity. On a daily basis, the U.S. Federal court system distributes pleading via download of pdf files. All of the files require that my staff 'save as' from an index distributed by the court. The files require a naming convention of 'cause no.'_'plaintiff'_v_'defendant'_'pleading name'_'attachment no.'.pdf which looks something like this in the real-world: 89CV0010_MyClient_v_TheDefendant_RespMotionSummaryJudgment_Exh01.pdf 89CV0010_MyClient_v_TheDefendant_RespMotionSummaryJudgment_Exh02.pdf 89CV0010_MyClient_v_TheDefendant_RespMotionSummaryJudgment_Exh03.pdf 89CV0010_MyClient_v_TheDefendant_RespMotionSummaryJudgment_Exh04.pdf 89CV0010_MyClient_v_TheDefendant_RespMotionSummaryJudgment_Exh05.pdf 89CV0010_MyClient_v_TheDefendant_RespMotionSummaryJudgment_Exh06.pdf 89CV0010_MyClient_v_TheDefendant_RespMotionSummaryJudgment_Exh07.pdf When the file save as dialog doesn't allow you to pick a previous file name, that means that staff can't just select a simple file name and change 01 to 02, etc., they have to try and (1) remember the exact file name they just used and (2) retype the entire name without error simply to change a single character. This is a biggie that needs to be addressed before release. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318 User xavier@wflogistics.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318#c7 Xavier Callejas changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |xavier@wflogistics.com --- Comment #7 from Xavier Callejas 2008-11-16 22:17:40 MST --- why don't just use 'Control' keyboard key while you click on the file? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318 User danielstefanmader@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318#c9 --- Comment #9 from Daniel Mader 2008-11-17 01:01:29 MST --- Maybe I must explain my last comment and item 3) a little closer for some of us: it is *overly* and *hugely* annoying that clicking the "wrong" file accidentially in File Open (yes, that happens sometimes) and it opens *right away*. This defeats the purpose of any Cancel, OK, or Save button in the dialog since there is no chance to ever click them. Please accept that this is a bug in kdelibs. It drives me mad. Please! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318 User stbinner@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318#c11 Stephan Binner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mrmazda@ij.net --- Comment #11 from Stephan Binner 2008-11-17 07:25:53 MST --- *** Bug 439637 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439637 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318 User stbinner@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427318#c13 Stephan Binner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #13 from Stephan Binner 2008-11-18 10:34:01 MST --- Submitted changed package. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.