Bug 268600

Summary: File movement arrow for File Already Exists Dialog
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: KDE Brainstorm Submissions <brainstorm>
Component: generalAssignee: Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: faure, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: junior-jobs, usability
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://commits.kde.org/kio/baa38ebee32e8d267ac1dab8f6b3a1d77adde64a Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: file replace mock-up

Description KDE Brainstorm Submissions 2011-03-16 00:00:42 UTC 
Created attachment 58059 [details]
file replace mock-up

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

In the existing "File Already Exists" dialog box, the box you get when you try to drop a file in a folder that already has a file with that name, it is not very clear which file is being moved and which one is already there. It would be good, as someone suggested to me, if there was a clear way to know which file is the one being moved. I think the best way would be an arrow pointing from the file being moved to the existing file. This would probably be localization-dependent, moving from left to right in left-to-right languages and moving from right to left in right-to-left languages.

You can see the arrow in the dialog box below. It is just an example from the oxygen icon theme, the actual arrow icon could be just about anything.
Mock-up: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/toddrme/computer/dolphin/file-replace-mockup_name.png (is also attached)

This feature request was originally submitted through KDE Brainstorm, and has been submitted to Bugzilla due to popular demand. Original idea: http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=38912

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-04-23 21:48:24 UTC 
Not a bad idea!
Comment 2 David Faure 2020-04-13 10:53:20 UTC 
I like it too.
Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2020-05-02 09:27:44 UTC 
Git commit baa38ebee32e8d267ac1dab8f6b3a1d77adde64a by Ahmad Samir.
Committed on 02/05/2020 at 09:27.
Pushed by ahmadsamir into branch 'master'.

[RenameDialog] Add an arrow indicating direction from src to dest

Summary:
This adds a visual indication to show the direction of the copy/move..etc
operation pointing from source to destination.

See the screenshots.
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Reviewers: #frameworks, dfaure, meven, ngraham, #dolphin

Reviewed By: meven, ngraham, #dolphin

Subscribers: kde-frameworks-devel

Tags: #frameworks

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D29254

M  +16   -6    src/widgets/renamedialog.cpp

https://commits.kde.org/kio/baa38ebee32e8d267ac1dab8f6b3a1d77adde64a