[Kde-imaging] [kipiplugins] [Bug 133515] no warning if write permission is missing while commenting an image

[Andrew Findlay]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133515

Andrew Findlay <andrew.findlay at skills-1st.co.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Andrew Findlay <andrew.findlay at skills-1st.co.uk> ---
Problem still present in Gwenview 4.14.3 on OpenSuSE 13.2 at 2015-04-02.
Tags, comments, and ratings are stored in extended file attributes so they
cannot be saved if the file is not writeable.
Gwenview does not inform the user if it cannot write the attributes (it does
output a message to stderr, but nothing shows in the GUI). It seems to cache
the attributes for a while, so within the session where ratings etc are set it
appears that they have been saved. This can lead to great frustration and waste
of time.

To see what is going on, use:
           getfattr -d <filename>

Preferred solution: show an error in the GUI if attributes cannot be saved.

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