Bug 434920

Summary:	File properties dialog should have the Location field clickable to open the parent folder in a browser
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	Oded Arbel <oded>
Component:	Properties dialog	Assignee:	KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugseforuns, eric1, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Oded Arbel 2021-03-25 07:34:58 UTC

SUMMARY
Sometimes one can get a file properties dialog not through Dolphin (e.g. when clicking "Edit Application..." in Kickoff's RMB menu), at which point it might be useful to allow the user to quickly open the file's containing folder in a file browser.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open the plasma main menu
2. Choose an application entry, right click it and choose "Edit Application..."
3. Try to open the folder where the desktop entry file is located

OBSERVED RESULT
One needs to triple click the Location entry, copy, open a file browser, open the location bar, clear the location bar and paste the copied text.

EXPECTED RESULT
Ideally there would be a way to quickly open a file browser to the displayed location. A few places in Plasma now use "hyper links" style to show that a path is clickable, or a small button (like this: [📂]) would be nice, or just have the text clickable with a pointer cursor to show it is clickable.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-03-25 21:13:26 UTC

Seems quite reasonable to me. It could be a clickable link, yeah.

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2023-10-03 07:22:45 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/1435