Bug 279012

Summary:	KHTML-like choose file/folder path or URL field in WebKit
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kwebkitpart	Reporter:	Adrián Chaves (Gallaecio) <adrian>
Component:	general	Assignee:	webkit-devel
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adawit, faure
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Chakra
OS:	Linux
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Description Adrián Chaves (Gallaecio) 2011-08-01 09:59:37 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

KHTML field to choose an URL, file or folder path displays a field where you can write, and a Dolphin/folder icon you can press to choose a file or folder from your filesystem. This is great, because you can i.e. paste in the field an URL from a website and upload it to another, skipping the “download here, upload there” step.

In the other hand, in WebKit, you can only choose a file or folder from your filesystem.

I would love to see this KHTML feature in WebKit, if possible.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
WebKit allowing you to manually write an URL instead of choosing a file or folder from your filesystem when asked to enter a path in a website.

As an example, opening http://bayimg.com/ with KHTML you can check out this behavior. In this site, you could just paste the path to an image in another website, and upload it directly.

Comment 1 David Faure 2011-10-16 08:41:21 UTC

I very much agree with you, I'm missing this feature in kde webkit.

However I'm told it's complex to implement, since there is no interface for this :( I guess that means it would require changes in webkit itself.

Comment 2 Dawit Alemayehu 2011-11-13 06:35:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I very much agree with you, I'm missing this feature in kde webkit.
> 
> However I'm told it's complex to implement, since there is no interface for
> this :( I guess that means it would require changes in webkit itself.

Yep. This needs to be reported upstream against QtWebKit:

http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitBugs

Comment 3 Adrián Chaves (Gallaecio) 2011-11-13 08:23:09 UTC

For future reference: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72226