Bug 78862

Summary: Open dialog should support and accept wildcards in the Name: field
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: Jim Higson <jh>
Component: Open/save dialogsAssignee: David Faure <faure>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: wishlist CC: a.samirh78, bugseforuns, dang, kdelibs-bugs, maarizwan, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Jim Higson 2004-04-01 14:39:48 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:          Linux

Sorry if Konqueror is the wrong component, it seemed the closest match for this problem, which relates to file chooser dialogs.

In kate I wanted to open the .c files in a folder, so I selected open and navigated to the dir. The chooser allowed multiple selections so I typed *.c in the location field.

The chooser did not like this. It did not use *.c as a wildcard, nor did it recognise it as an invalid file name, and created a file called '*.c'

IMO it would be much beter if file chooser dialogs allowed wildcards when accepting multiple selections. In this case manually clicking all c files is tedious, especially when I'm used to typing *.c on the shell.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2009-08-27 02:35:18 UTC 
Moving from "kio/kfile" component to "kfile" product, helps sorting out duplicates.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-04-11 20:52:39 UTC 
*** Bug 114123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2021-07-24 13:48:21 UTC 
You could type *.c in the filter box, and it'll show only those files in the view.