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Issue #|80005
Summary|wish: Save As -> Rename
Component|framework
Version|OOo 2.2
Platform|PC
URL|
OS/Version|Linux
Status|UNCONFIRMED
Status whiteboard|
Keywords|
Resolution|
Issue type|ENHANCEMENT
Priority|P3
Subcomponent|ui
Assigned to|tm
Reported by|richardneill
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 24 20:46:17 +0000
2007 -------
Consider the following usage case:
1)User has lots of documents "lying around", and wants to tidy them up. User
starts out by viewing a folder in Konqueror.
2)For each document, user does:
i)Click on document, to open it and see what it is.
ii)Decides to rename it with a more helpful/accurate filename
iii)Uses "Save As" to create the new name.
iv)Has to minimise OOo and return to Konqui in order to delete the file
with the old name.
Step iv) is a very slow process to do in a GUI. It's really a misuse of "Save
As", since "Save As" is more akin to cp than mv. [Save As is useful for
starting with a template and then saving as the finished letter, or for
incremental versions of files].
Thus my wish is for either:
a)File->Rename
or
b)A checkbox in the "Save As" file dialog box, called "rename this". [This box
is always unchecked to begin with; it has a tooltip "Rename this file, deleting
the original"] When the user checks the box, the Save As behaves like 'mv' not
'cp'.
Optional: to make this safer, if the file has been modified between opening and
renaming, either give the user a warning, or put the original in the trash
rather than deleting it.
Hope that's useful. I've observed my Aunt with exactly this problem - and it
would have saved quite a lot of time!
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