https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401937
Bug ID: 401937
Summary: It's too easy to lose the original filename is Save As
dialog
Product: frameworks-kio
Version: unspecified
Platform: Archlinux Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Open/save dialogs
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 116819
--> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=116819&action=edit
Link to video reproducing case of user frustration
SUMMARY
It is not strange for a user using the Save As dialog to click on other files
and folders before making their final choice, even if it's by mistake. However,
by doing this they might easily lose track of the original filename of the file
they were intending to save -- and it seems the interface does not help
recovering it.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Run the 'Save As' dialog from an application which uses it (e.g. Kate or
Falkon). Make sure to have a filename suggestion (e.g. avoid saving an Untitled
document in Kate because that doesn't provide any).
2. Click on a file from the file list but do not exit the dialog.
3. The filename suggestion gets replaced by the filename of the chosen file.
OBSERVED RESULT
The dialog interface doesn't seem to provide any way to recover the original
suggested filename of the file that is being saved. In order to do so, the user
then has either to copy the filename before interacting with the file browser
or to cancel the operation and open the dialog again.
EXPECTED RESULT
I would have expected to find some visual functionality for recovering the
original filename (e.g. an 'undo' icon in the left side of the text box, in a
similar fashion to the backspace one which is already shown when editing the
filename), or the original filename to be the first in the dropdown list, or
even an option for this in the right-click context menu.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.4
Qt Version: 5.11.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.52.0
Kernel Version: 4.19.4-arch1-1-ARCH
OS Type: 64-bit
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
A possible worst-case scenario is when downloading a file from internet. In
this case, there probably is no file in disk with a similar name they can
recover the original filename from. If the user loses the original filename by
mistake and they didn't copy it to clipboard, their only way to recover it is
by closing the dialog and following the download link again -- and there are
certain websites which will only provide a single chance to download the file.
I am enclosing a video capture of a similar situation of user frustration.
Because of a possible bug, the original filename is lost when changing
directories and there is no way to get it back -- except pasting it from the
clipboard if the user already knew it was going to happen, which was my case.
Thank you very much.
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