Bug 197938

Summary: Directory picker dialog: unify the look with file open/save dialog
Product: [Plasma] plasma-integration Reporter: Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: 4wy78uwh, claudio.tessone, kdelibs-bugs-null, med.medin.2014, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2009-06-26 09:59:42 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.90)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Currently KDE provides two _different_ dialogs -- file and directory -- despite the purpose of those is very similar. A lot of feature from file dialog makes perfect sense in directory dialog -- showing places pane, zooming in/out, etc.

Some of them are valid, but not that useful -- previews, going up, etc. 

But the main point is -- introducing two different dialogs, where could be virtually one (only the main pane could differ) increases complexity of KDE. User has to learn more, guess where to find feature A (or think why it is not present), and so on. Uniform look matters, so please reshape directory dialog just like file dialog with exceptions which are _necessary_, but not more.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-04-13 15:07:27 UTC 
*** Bug 199121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2021-04-06 02:32:27 UTC 
*** Bug 435290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***