(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: kde Version: KDE 3.0.1 Severity: wishlist Installed from: Unlisted Binary Package Compiler: Not Specified OS: Linux OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified Hi I'd like to submit a enhancement idea that i got after talking with a non-technical person. It's a kind of multisave system. Let me explain: Suppose I'm a geographical reporter. I keep articles from different dates and from different countries so my home could look like this: /home/articles/ /home/articles/ByDate/september /home/articles/ByDate/october /home/articles/ByDate/december ... /home/article/ByCountry/France /home/article/ByCountry/Germany /home/article/ByCountry/Japan ... Now suppose i want to save an article that i wrote in december about France. Where do I put it ? The best thing to do is to save it in both directories (with links) so modifying it in a location affects it on the other location. Thus a smart way of saving files. It's a pretty easy thing to do with a file manager like Konqueror but for the non-techie people whom i showed this it still seemed a little long (going from Koffice to Konqueror modify some file then come back). What would be great is the possibility in the "save file" dialog to select several directories (with ctrl for example) but keeps an unique filename. Then when OK the file would be saved once in multi locations with links. (Ideally when the two directories are on different partitions the link is a symlink). I don't really know if such a behaviour is hard to design and implement but i think it could be useful. (Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
Moving from "kio/kfile" component to "kfile" product, helps sorting out duplicates.
I was actually toying with this idea after my non-technical mother had the same problem. However, this is really a job for the file manager, not the save dialog, because there are many circumstances when you might want to do this without saving files. For example, a teacher making a new copy of a directory containing last year's lesson plan; should all the files be blindly duplicated, symlinked, hardlinked, or something else?. What would be really cool is if the files were hardlinked, but changing one would trigger a dialog asking whether you wanted to change all copies of the file, or just this one. Choosing the latter option would break the link and make a new un-linked file with the changes. So I very much like the idea, but we would need to put a great deal of design work into it if it were ever to be implemented, and it would be in Dolphin, not the save dialog.