Bug 204497

Summary:	Add option to open file after saving it
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Szczepan Hołyszewski <rulatir>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	a.samirh78, bugseforuns, finex, hohenegger, kdelibs-bugs, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
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Description Szczepan Hołyszewski 2009-08-20 11:08:21 UTC

Version:           1.12.0 (using KDE 4.3.0)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

Please add the time saving functionality of auto-opening the destination folder when saving an attachment. This could be controlled by an additional checkbox on the file selector.

The implementation should:

- detect running desktop environment and use that environment's configured file manager instead of always using Dolphin. If we don't feel like writing code to determine this user preference in each and every DE, then at least use the detected DE's _default_ file manager. That should be as easy as a static dictionary.

- if we can know that the file manager is already displaying the desired directory in a window or tab, just bring it to the front. If there are many such windows/tabs, find one that doesn't have multiple selection. If not found, open new window or tab.

Comment 1 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2009-08-20 11:09:27 UTC

- if known how-to, send message to the file manager window to select the attachment file and scroll it into view

Comment 2 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2009-08-20 13:37:07 UTC

I don't understand the reassignment to kfile. I am requesting that a feature be implemented in kmail. That feature will use kfile features but no changes to kfile are being requested, unless simply adding a checkbox to a file selector requires changes to kfile.

Perhaps you mean that the whole routine of "show file in user's preferred file manager, reusing window/tab that already shows the containing folder, but avoid destroying multiple selection in that window" belongs to kfile?

Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-08-20 23:27:59 UTC

Adding a checkbox on the file selector means modify kfile. So the wish has been moved to kfile :-)

Comment 4 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2009-08-21 09:18:00 UTC

I am still not convinced. I don't know KDE API well, but I believe it is a reasonable assumption that the authors of KDE wouldn't design the fileselector API so that it would be impossible to decorate the file dialog with an extra checkbox without modifying KDE code.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-04-11 17:34:07 UTC

*** Bug 299225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Ahmad Samir 2020-12-03 21:54:32 UTC

Looks like this is a specific use case for KMail.