From kde-core-devel Mon Mar 08 07:32:31 2004 From: Andras Mantia Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 07:32:31 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: PATCH: Bug 73440: Konq deletes files when dragging Message-Id: <200403091554.02436.amantia () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=107873115108168 On Sunday 07 March 2004 23:52, David Faure wrote: > I think there is some confusion here. > Overwriting a file by dropping another file on top of it in Konqueror, > and writing to a file from within an application, are two very different > things. Why should be different? Both can be triggered by the user, and I don't see the difference between overwriting a file (symlink) in Konqueror or saving a document to an existing file (symlink) in a text editor. > While I believe the first one should not follow symlinks (see the initial > part of the thread), I read again, but I still think that this way Konqui/KDE behaves inconsistent compared to the rest of the *nix world. I have shown that shell commands or mc (and maybe other old file managers as well) overwrite the destination file. If we want to be really smart, we should make a distinction between overwriting a file or symlink and offer the choice to the user to overwrite the original file, the symlink file and so. > the second one should obviously follow symlinks!! > If it doesn't do that anymore, then it's a regression introduced by the fix > for the first case. This means Dawit's fix needs work.... I can't verify the previous behavior, but it seems that the current one is broken. Although KWrite does it right... Andras -- Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.sourceforge.net K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org