https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515220
Bug ID: 515220
Summary: "Always do this in the future" checkbox in the "Launch
or edit this .desktop file?" dialog invites future
confusion
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Product: frameworks-kio
Version First 6.22.0
Reported In:
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Keywords: usability
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
The first time you open a .desktop file that's *not* on the Plasma desktop, you
see a dialog window asking you if you want to launch the app or edit its
.desktop file.
The dialog also contains an "always do this in the future" checkbox.
When the user clicks this checkbox amounts, it amounts to them trying to
predict their own intentions in the future, inviting errors.
For example, in Bug 512378 a user clicked that checkbox and then the "open in
Kate" button, thereby ensuring that .desktop files opened from Dolphin never
launched for them ever again. The user forgot they did this and assumed the
behavior of opening in Kate was a bug.
The UI to change this decision is in Dolphin, which we can't guarantee is
installed, and where the user is not likely to know it exists because they
didn't access it from there.
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