On Wednesday 12 November 2025 15:25:22 Eastern European Standard Time Oliver Schramm wrote: > Hey, > > the following commit unfortunately didn't make it quite in time for the > Frameworks 6.20 tagging. So I wanted to ask, if you could cherry-pick it. > And maybe even add it to a possible KF5 bugfix release, should there ever > come one still. (Maybe you're collecting patches for 18 months, I don't > know! 😅) > > Reason: > It fixes a very unexpected behaviour that could lead to data loss. > When users want to move a file to trash and the file is too big for the > trash, the file instead gets deleted. If users have confirmations before > deleting disabled, this will happen *without additional warning*! > > Because users probably do want a file gone they are moving to trash, I > wouldn't say this is emergency-bugfix worthy. However, users *would* be > able to restore a file if it's in trash. But since the app possibly does > something the user doesn't want, the user won't have this choice anymore. > > This is also mentioned in the referenced bug: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475235 > > At the same time, it is a very unrisky bugfix, which only adds four lines of > code. One for forcing the confirmation, three for disabling the "don't ask > again"-checkbox which would save a wrong value. > > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/commit/52253584cd9e69a9920fa4396076a > 7b8c33c13f2 > > Thank you very much! > > Greetings, > Oliver
Hi, if you think it's something distros should know about, you can also email about this in kde-distributions mailing list (if you haven't yet). - Akseli
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