Bug 351189

Summary:	Cannot open new file using the open dialog
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Antoine Pitrou <pitrou>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	minor	CC:	christoph, eda-qa, ilmari.lauhakangas, jm.ouwerkerk
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.04.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Antoine Pitrou 2015-08-11 13:39:24 UTC

In previous versions of Kate, I could open new files using the Open dialog. I would simply type a non-existing file name and it would create a new file with that name in the current directory.

With Kate 5.0, if I try to do that, it fails with an error dialog "cannot find file".

Of course, this is not a biggie. I mostly need to re-train my fingers, but doing that from the Open dialog was actually practical :)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Buovjaga 2016-06-25 14:52:17 UTC

Confirmed.

Arch Linux 64-bit
Kate 16.04.2
KDE Frameworks 5.23.0
Qt 5.7
xcb wm

Comment 2 Buovjaga 2016-06-25 15:50:55 UTC

*** Bug 352797 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2016-09-05 14:52:15 UTC

We use QFileDialog::getOpenFileUrls for that, there is no way to influence this. Therefore this is a won't fix for me.

Comment 4 jm.ouwerkerk 2016-09-05 16:22:10 UTC

Also note thatright click -> New File option works (again) from the Open File dialog (it was broken/removed previously but seems restored).

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2016-09-05 16:25:11 UTC

*** Bug 365597 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***