Bug 280868 - Dolphin could allow overwrite while doing drag and drop
Summary: Dolphin could allow overwrite while doing drag and drop
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 16.12.2
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
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Reported: 2011-08-27 08:51 UTC by tnemeth
Modified: 2018-01-26 01:27 UTC (History)
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Description tnemeth 2011-08-27 08:51:21 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

It would be usefull to allow dolphin to move a file over another one so that the
older one is overwritten by the contents of the new (dropped) one. Just like having
2 (non-empty) files -- foo and bar -- and doing "mv foo bar" : drag'n'dropping foo
over bar should replace the contents of bar with that of foo (keeping bar as the
name, just like with mv).
Of course, a confirmation dialog should warn the user about what's happening in
case it's a wrong drop.

Reproducible: Didn't try



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Comment 1 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:22:32 UTC
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-01-26 01:27:45 UTC
Not sure this feature makes much sense given the potential for data destruction of for anyone who doesn't immediately grasp what's going on. And it's pretty easy to do this anyway: copy-and-paste the file, then rename it to the name of the file you want to replace.

Or just pull up the integrated terminal pane and do `mv foo bar`.