https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410817
Bug ID: 410817
Summary: Select files from the address (folder) bar in
KFileDialog
Product: frameworks-kio
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Open/save dialogs
Assignee: fa...@kde.org
Reporter: raphael....@jakse.fr
CC: kdelibs-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
Hello,
I find myself often trying to start typing a file name in the address bar of
the open / save dialog.
When doing this, nothing happens, and if the file name is completely typed and
then the enter key is pressed, the dialog tries to open the file as a folder,
and this obviously fails.
Conversely, typing an address / a folder name in the "Name" field of the dialog
works (which, by the way, has by far the best behavior I could notice across
the different file dialogs I was (un)lucky to come across).
I think the current behavior of trying to open a file entered in the address
bar as a folder and fail is not intuitive.
I have two (contradictory) suggestions:
1) Either make the address bar act like the name field, with the optional
difference that folders should be selected / suggested before files.
2) Or keep the current behavior of suggesting folders as they are typed, and
then files. When enter is pressed:
2.1) Either open the selected file
2.2) Or show a dialog telling the user that this is a file (and not a
folder). "Would you like to open this file (or) replace the existing file?".
In both cases, if (the prefix of) a file is entered / selected in the address
bar, the file's icon should be shown instead of the folder icon in the address
bar.
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