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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Intended behavior of "File Already Exists" dialog box?
From:       "Steven P. Ulrick" <ulrick2 () faith4miracle ! org>
Date:       2004-10-26 19:01:36
Message-ID: 200410261401.36364.ulrick2 () faith4miracle ! org
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Hello, Everyone
First of all, I want to thank all of you for your excellent work :)  Not only 
would I reccomend to people that they switch from Windows to Linux, but I 
would also gladly recomend that once they get to Linux, that they would use 
KDE.
Anyway, this "issue" has been bothering me for some time.  If it is the 
intended behavior, please let me know.  But I confess that I Hope that it is 
not the intended behavior :)
In the "File Already Exists" dialog box, let's say that I choose to move any 
amount of files and I drag them to a particular destination and chose to 
"Move" them.  If those files already exist, I only ever get the options as 
shown in this screenshot:
http://www.faith4miracle.org/FileAlreadyExists-Move.jpg

If I take exactly the same files, drag them to the same location, but this 
time choose to "Copy" instead of "Move", I get the following results (this is 
how I would like the "File Already Exists" dialog box to look all the time.):
http://www.faith4miracle.org/FileAlreadyExists-Copy.jpg
After making my choices to either skip or overwrite, when it gets down to the 
last file, the dialog reverts to the undesired "Move" behavior:
http://www.faith4miracle.org/FileAlreadyExists-Copy-LastFile.jpg

Like I said at the beginning of this message, if this is a feature and not a 
bug, I would like to know.  My personal opinion is that there may always be a 
reason to skip or autoskip, irrespective of whether I one is copying or 
moving.  Actually there are a few other options that I would like to see in 
this dialog, but that's for another time.....

Operating System: Fedora Core 2, All Packages installed, All official Updates 
installed (Except the kernel)
QT: 3.3.3 from TrollTech source tarball
KDE: CVS HEAD

QT and KDE paths are both exported in my ~/.bash_profile.  I did not overwrite 
the FC2 default KDE.

Have a Great Day
Steven P. Ulrick
 
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