Summary: | savebox could be enhanced for multi-directories saves with links | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kfile | Reporter: | benji2 |
Component: | general | Assignee: | kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | nate |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | unspecified | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
benji2
2002-08-19 21:25:01 UTC
Moving from "kio/kfile" component to "kfile" product, helps sorting out duplicates. I was actually toying with this idea after my non-technical mother had the same problem. However, this is really a job for the file manager, not the save dialog, because there are many circumstances when you might want to do this without saving files. For example, a teacher making a new copy of a directory containing last year's lesson plan; should all the files be blindly duplicated, symlinked, hardlinked, or something else?. What would be really cool is if the files were hardlinked, but changing one would trigger a dialog asking whether you wanted to change all copies of the file, or just this one. Choosing the latter option would break the link and make a new un-linked file with the changes. So I very much like the idea, but we would need to put a great deal of design work into it if it were ever to be implemented, and it would be in Dolphin, not the save dialog. |