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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Intended behavior of "File Already Exists" dialog box?
From:       Christoph Wiesen <chris () deadhand ! com>
Date:       2004-10-26 19:24:53
Message-ID: 200410262124.54004.chris () deadhand ! com
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Hello,

I'm not a developer and probably not what you wanted as a first answer, but 
anyway:

I have seen this exact behavior as well. I hesitated to report it because I 
wasn't sure as to when the usefull skip and overwrite-all options are 
displayed and when not, but as it is explained here seems to be the exact 
same way this works for me as well. Which means that any time i move files I 
don't get these options for some reason.
Maybe this is due to some considerations like 'a user would not want only 
parts of the files to be moved' or something but I hope it is not a desired 
behaviour and can be fixed.

Thanks!

Am Tuesday, 26. October 2004 21:01 schrieb Steven P. Ulrick:
> 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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