Bug 332456

Summary:	Creating a new folder gives no notification but creating a file does
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kio	Reporter:	Brock McNuggets <usenet>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck, infroma, lordcrc
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.11.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mint (Ubuntu based)
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://youtu.be/N7-fZJaJUv8
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Brock McNuggets 2014-03-22 23:35:18 UTC

You get a notification in the notification area when you create files, but not when you create folders.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See video

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2014-03-24 21:52:58 UTC

This is because creating a new file is internally simply a "copy from template". Depending on the size of the template, or if the target is on a remote folder, copying could indeed take some time, so a notification might be useful.

I am not sure, however, we should add notifications when creating folders, which requires no data copying, so the difference might be intended. Could you please clarify the expected behavior?

Comment 2 Brock McNuggets 2014-03-24 23:29:58 UTC

In the common case neither would take any significant time but I see your point about how file creation *can* take time. I suppose over a network (or if you have drive issues) folder creation could as well, so I would expect a notification for both.

Comment 3 Asbjørn 2014-09-20 18:58:19 UTC

Also, the notification should not refer to copying, as that is not what the user did (the user doesn't care about internals). 

As a personal preference I'd like to see the notification if the operation is lengthy (ie if it takes more than 1 second). For normal operation (ie fast) it could still log the notification, but don't distract me with it.

For consistency it should behave the same for files and directories.

Comment 4 Roman Inflianskas 2018-03-15 06:59:45 UTC

It seems that this issue has been fixed: now (I use KDE from the master branch of git) I get no notification when I create both files and folders. In my opinion, it's a right behavior.

Feel free to comment on this if you think that this bug was closed prematurely.