Bug 70384

Summary: Possibility to paste a directory name from the clipboard with middle mouse button in File Open Dialog
Product: [Applications] kfile Reporter: Helge Deller <deller>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: deller, madcoder, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Helge Deller 2003-12-14 12:19:52 UTC 
Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.1.94 (CVS >= 20031206), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.21-99-athlon

Konqueror allows you to just paste the current clipbord content (an URL or a path)
directly somewhere in the window and Konqueror will open this location in the current
window.

The same feature would IMHO be cool for KDE's "File Open" and "File Save As" Dialog
boxes. Pasting the current path from the clipboard either into the File list window
or somewhere at the border with the MMB should change the view to show this path as 
current directory and it's contents.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2009-08-27 02:34:53 UTC 
Moving from "kio/kfile" component to "kfile" product, helps sorting out duplicates.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-04-11 20:30:17 UTC 
Fantastically, this now works just how you want it: when you middle-click-paste a valid path into the URL/path bar, the whole dialog instantly changes to that path!
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-04-11 21:23:50 UTC 
*** Bug 123988 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Helge Deller 2018-04-12 05:26:52 UTC 
Wow!, it just took 15 years to implement it :-)