Bug 242524

Summary: filter in file open/save dialog should be like dolphin's (filemanager's) filter
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan <maarizwan>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan 2010-06-22 22:10:38 UTC 
Version:           4.4 (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                Linux

Filter in file save/open dialog is useless, and unusable to novice/new users who do not know about wild-cards ['*','?'] as:

1. it doesn't filter out the folders, and
2. the user has to manually type *xt*, then press enter to find a file text.txt, text.csv, text.odf etc.. (this slows down and doesn't really make the user productive)
3. user can't filter out a folder
4. user can't 'switch-off' 'switch-on' 'showing folders' when there are many folders, finding files is very difficult.

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
Just like Dolphin's Filter bar, All KDE file save/open dialogs should have same behavior.

Entry in the Bar = expected behavior:
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[no entry] = * [all files and folders]
*.txt = *.txt [folders and *.txt files]
txt = only files/folder containing txt in it, == *txt*


It would be nice to have "dolphin filemanager kpart" in file open/save dialog. thanks.

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.34-ARCH
Compiler: gcc
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-06-23 03:17:18 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 142900 ***