Bug 475324

Summary:	Renaming file: Remove line breaks when pasting into the file name input field
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	postix <postix>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	auramanceralt, kfm-devel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	23.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description postix 2023-10-07 15:32:07 UTC

SUMMARY

I sometimes rename e-books and for that copy and paste their titles from within Okular.
Unfortunately they then contain linebreaks and I need to remove those before I can apply the new name eventually.

I'd be great if newlines were simply discarded on pasting into the rename input field as they don't make any sense anyway.

Comment 1 postix 2023-10-07 15:43:55 UTC

or instead of removing, it'd be better to replace those with empty spaces.

Comment 2 Aura_Mancer 2024-01-17 13:15:08 UTC

I would like to clarify that it isn't that Dolphin doesn't let you paste strings with line breaks in them in the renaming/naming a new file/directory fields, it instead blindly accepts them, they appear like spaces, and Dolphin creates/renames the directory with them included.

Since a lot of software doesn't behave correctly when presented with directories or files with newlines, it leads to confusion as to why there are random bugs with that file/directory.

Comment 3 Aura_Mancer 2024-01-20 19:07:05 UTC

Also adding here that this bug also happens in the KDE portal file/directory selection windows when creating new folders.