Bug 172781

Summary:	Lack of option to create file by pasting contents of clipboard
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Michał D. (Emdek) <emdeck>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	emdeck, frank78ac, samjnaa, wizzardx
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Michał D. (Emdek) 2008-10-14 10:16:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.2)
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

There was an option in Konqueror in KDE3 to paste clipboard contents as new file with prompt for it's name. Now we must create and open file before paste. This option could be added also to Dolphin.

Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2008-10-15 23:49:20 UTC

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm changing the severity to 'wishlist' and the product to 'Dolphin' because Konqueror uses Dolphin's file management code (although it might be necessary to change the context menu in both applications separately; I'm not sure about that).

Comment 2 Michał D. (Emdek) 2009-02-18 20:48:28 UTC

What is the current status of this bug? Is someone working on it? ;-)
Now there is inconsistency with Folder View plasmoid which has this feature so I think that this small but very useful thing should be added also here...

Comment 3 Frank Reininghaus 2009-02-18 22:08:41 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> What is the current status of this bug? Is someone working on it? ;-)

Actually, I looked into this just a few days ago and also realized that the feature is implemented in FolderView (and with not too much effort, it uses code in kdelibs that does practically all the work). I'll ask Peter (the Dolphin maintainer) how to best implement this in Dolphin when I have a bit more time and try to come up with a patch.

Anyway, I think the feature can't be implemented before KDE 4.3 because the 4.2.x branch is in bugfix-only mode and because the implementation of this feature might also require new strings (which have to be translated into dozens of languages), depending on how it is implemented.

Comment 4 Michał D. (Emdek) 2009-02-18 22:20:51 UTC

Thanks for reply. :-)
I know about all these problems with changes in translateable strings after strings freeze and I can wait for KDE 4.3 (I'm already waiting for this for some releases already ;-)) but if it could be possible (by at least temporary reuse of some strings, like from create file dialog, for selecting name of file, and if possible copying or moving to common place action string from that plasmoid, using kind of script on .po files) it would be very nice, but if it is not, it just can wait. ;-)

Comment 5 Frank Reininghaus 2009-02-20 18:23:28 UTC

*** Bug 185001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Frank Reininghaus 2009-02-26 21:07:15 UTC

David Faure has implemented this feature for KDE 4.3:

http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=931496

I can confirm that it works fine in the trunk versions of Dolphin and Konqueror :-)

Comment 7 Michał D. (Emdek) 2009-02-27 17:03:36 UTC

Thank you very much. :-)

Comment 8 Frank Reininghaus 2009-06-10 17:08:33 UTC

*** Bug 195872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***