Bug 509176

Summary: Sentence in Preferences: General: Show downloads... doesn't make sense
Product: [Plasma] plasma-browser-integration Reporter: Forest <forestix>
Component: FirefoxAssignee: Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
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Description Forest 2025-09-05 20:11:14 UTC 
SUMMARY

In the Plasma Integration Firefox extension's general preferences, under the "show downloads in notification area" heading, there is an option with the following text:

"Save URL a file was downloaded from in the file's attributes"

Did a non-English speaker write that? Because I have no idea what that sentence is supposed to mean.

Could somebody please explain that option's purpose, and update the extension with a comprehensible label?

KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Debian Stable (Trixie)
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2025-09-05 21:19:43 UTC 
Yes I'm not a native English speaker. Can you suggest better wording? 

It means that it will write the location (URL) a file originated from into the file's extended attributes.
Comment 2 Forest 2025-09-15 23:19:52 UTC 
How about something like this?

    Write each downloaded file's source (URL) into its extended attributes

I think that works better with English syntax, and is more informative to someone who knows what URLs and extended attributes are.

By extended attributes, do you mean attributes stored separately by the filesystem (for tools like lsattr and chattr), or meta-data fields within the file itself (like ID3v2 tags in .mp3 files)? If the latter, this might be better wording:

    Write each downloaded file's source (URL) into its internal meta-data