Bug 337977

Summary:	Add confirm overwrite option for kdialog --getsavefilename
Product:	[Applications] kdialog	Reporter:	benedictleejh
Component:	general	Assignee:	Brad Hards <bradh>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck, justin.zobel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description benedictleejh 2014-08-02 10:04:19 UTC

Currently, kdialog's save file dialog does not handle overwrite confirmation when choosing an existing file to save over, meaning that when using kdialog, extra work has to be done to open another dialog to confirm the overwrite. It would be nice if the save file dialog could handle this on its own (similar to how KFileDialog in the KIO KDE libs can do so).

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2014-08-02 20:09:50 UTC

Hm, wouldn't it make sense to always ask for this confirmation? In other words, instead of adding a --confirmoverwrite option, we could change the defaults, and add a --noconfirmoverwrite option.

Opinions?

Comment 2 benedictleejh 2014-08-03 03:38:49 UTC

I second that. To me, a default asking for confirmation and --noconfirmoverwrite option would make more sense. I was originally proposing based on a backward compatibility point of view.

Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-12 02:53:12 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-21 04:23:36 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Comment 5 benedictleejh 2018-11-21 07:15:50 UTC

Testing on Plasma 5.14.3 suggests that kdialog now has a confirm overwrite option for the save file dialog. Looking at the help though, I can't find a --noconfirmoverwrite option, for those who might want it. I'm not too concerned, because it's probably better to make sure the user really wants to overwrite an existing file, but there might be those who do want it.

I'll leave it to the maintainers to decide if this issue can be considered closed (since it's technically fixed) and those who want a --noconfirmoverwrite should open another issue or not.