STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. set your desktop do folder view layout 2. copy two files of the same type to desktop 3. try to rename one of the two files using the same name as the other file that you copied to desktop OBSERVED RESULT plasma shows the error message "Could not rename file..." EXPECTED RESULT plasma shows the same "File already exists" dialog that appears when you follow the steps 2 and 3 using Dolphin SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.57.0 Qt Version: 5.13.0 beta3
Dolphin uses KIO::moveAs which prompts to rename if already exists, whereas Folder View goes through KDirModel which uses KIO::rename which complains when it already exists and doesn't work when direct rename isn't possible. I guess KDirModel should be changed?
*** Bug 470333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
@pan You can look at this question first.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/1981
I have reproduced the issue and submitted a merge request.
Git commit e2869783a06c4a31a7f636b861f79bdffd8d79f8 by Akseli Lahtinen, on behalf of Pan Zhang. Committed on 05/09/2025 at 05:32. Pushed by akselmo into branch 'master'. KDirModel: use moveAs instead of Rename when editing file name When renaming a file on the desktop to an existing filename, the operation previously failed with a generic error instead of showing the expected "file already exists" dialog. This change ensures consistent behavior with renaming in the file manager. FIXED-IN: 6.18 M +2 -1 src/widgets/kdirmodel.cpp https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/commit/e2869783a06c4a31a7f636b861f79bdffd8d79f8