Bug 472210

Summary: Open dialog could offer option to create empty file when the filename is not found
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: Marcos Dione <mdione>
Component: Open/save dialogsAssignee: KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kdelibs-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.107.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
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Description Marcos Dione 2023-07-13 08:50:47 UTC 
SUMMARY
The Open dialog shows this error when the filename is not present in the directory:

The file '<file>' could not be found.

So far so good.

My suggestion is that the error dialog could suggest creating an empty file with that name. I would find it more useful than to have to close that error dialog, close the open dialog, and then tell the app to create a new file, and at some point having to enter the filename when saving for the first name.

Of course this probably means that the applications will have to support a new API for creating empty files (whatever that means for them) with the filename returned by the dialog.