Bug 268600 - File movement arrow for File Already Exists Dialog
Summary: File movement arrow for File Already Exists Dialog
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Unlisted Binaries Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Penz
URL:
Keywords: junior-jobs, usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-03-16 00:00 UTC by KDE Brainstorm Submissions
Modified: 2020-05-02 09:27 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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file replace mock-up (106.68 KB, image/png)
2011-03-16 00:00 UTC, KDE Brainstorm Submissions
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Description KDE Brainstorm Submissions 2011-03-16 00:00:42 UTC
Created attachment 58059 [details]
file replace mock-up

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

In the existing "File Already Exists" dialog box, the box you get when you try to drop a file in a folder that already has a file with that name, it is not very clear which file is being moved and which one is already there. It would be good, as someone suggested to me, if there was a clear way to know which file is the one being moved. I think the best way would be an arrow pointing from the file being moved to the existing file. This would probably be localization-dependent, moving from left to right in left-to-right languages and moving from right to left in right-to-left languages.

You can see the arrow in the dialog box below. It is just an example from the oxygen icon theme, the actual arrow icon could be just about anything.
Mock-up: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/toddrme/computer/dolphin/file-replace-mockup_name.png (is also attached)

This feature request was originally submitted through KDE Brainstorm, and has been submitted to Bugzilla due to popular demand. Original idea: http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=38912

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-04-23 21:48:24 UTC
Not a bad idea!
Comment 2 David Faure 2020-04-13 10:53:20 UTC
I like it too.
Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2020-05-02 09:27:44 UTC
Git commit baa38ebee32e8d267ac1dab8f6b3a1d77adde64a by Ahmad Samir.
Committed on 02/05/2020 at 09:27.
Pushed by ahmadsamir into branch 'master'.

[RenameDialog] Add an arrow indicating direction from src to dest

Summary:
This adds a visual indication to show the direction of the copy/move..etc
operation pointing from source to destination.

See the screenshots.
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Reviewers: #frameworks, dfaure, meven, ngraham, #dolphin

Reviewed By: meven, ngraham, #dolphin

Subscribers: kde-frameworks-devel

Tags: #frameworks

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D29254

M  +16   -6    src/widgets/renamedialog.cpp

https://commits.kde.org/kio/baa38ebee32e8d267ac1dab8f6b3a1d77adde64a