Bug 391591 - Improve notification shown when Dolphin deletes files
Summary: Improve notification shown when Dolphin deletes files
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: yozaam
URL:
Keywords: junior-jobs, usability
: 402168 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2018-03-09 02:47 UTC by Patrick Silva
Modified: 2023-07-13 11:37 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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notification when dolphin deletes a file (20.16 KB, image/png)
2018-03-09 02:47 UTC, Patrick Silva
Details
new notification system on Plasma 5.16.4 (35.12 KB, image/png)
2019-08-06 22:04 UTC, Patrick Silva
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Description Patrick Silva 2018-03-09 02:47:33 UTC
Created attachment 111270 [details]
notification when dolphin deletes a file

I think this notification weird (screenshot).
"Moving: Finished"?
Maybe "Moving to trash: finished" will make it clearer.

Maybe "trash:/ filename" can be replaced just with the file name.

"open" button? Why would anyone want to open a file just moved to trash?
I can not think of any reason.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-03-09 18:11:30 UTC
yeah, what would make more sense is an "undo" button, since that's pretty much the only actionable thing you would want to do with that file right after trashing it.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-11-14 23:24:40 UTC
Really, do we even need a notification here at all? I don't get it consistently. I wonder if it's something where KIO always shows a notification for file transfers that take a certain length of time or above a certain size.
Comment 3 Patrick Silva 2018-11-15 14:26:42 UTC
I do not see the purpose of this notification.
I think it can be removed.

Furthermore all notifications about file operations (copying, moving, renaming)
are inconsistent. Sometimes they appear, sometimes they do not appear.
Comment 4 Patrick Silva 2018-12-25 19:20:36 UTC
*** Bug 402168 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Patrick Silva 2019-02-24 02:11:32 UTC
This weird notification shows up even when I delete hundreads (almost 1000) of small files (jpg) from trash.
Comment 6 Patrick Silva 2019-08-06 22:04:59 UTC
Created attachment 121981 [details]
new notification system on Plasma 5.16.4

With the new notifications system Plasma shows a different notification (see the attached screenshot):
"Moving (Finished)
X files to trash"

I think that "Moving" is not an proper term in this situation.
Perhaps replacing "Moving (Finished)" with "Sending to trash (Finished)"
could be an improvement.

The new notification could be:
"Sending to trash (Finished)
X files"
Comment 7 Andrew Shark 2023-07-12 21:35:58 UTC
Seems that is fixed. I do not see any notifications even when deleting ~20 Gb folder.

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.108.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Dolphin: 23.04.3
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2023-07-13 11:37:00 UTC
This is still relevant; a notification still appears in some circumstances, and its wording still isn't ideal. BTW the heuristic for whether or nor a notification is shown for file operations is whether they take longer than ha;f a second to complete. So, whether the notification shows up or not will depend heavily on the files being trashed, moved, copied, deleted etc, and the performance of the storage volume they live on.