[Bug 170979] strange behaviour in "save as" dialog

[S. Burmeister]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170979


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--- Comment #12 from S. Burmeister <sven burmeister gmx net>  2008-10-14 12:27:40 ---
If a user clicks on a file in the "save as..." dialogue, this can mean
different things:

- selecting the file to change it's name, e.g. my_essay_2.xyz instead of
my_essay.xyz
- overwriting the file with the currently opened one

In the latter case, this means that the user wants to overwrite the existing
file, which has a different content with the currently opened file, not just a
new version of the same content, i.e. the user wants to overwrite dog.jpg with
cat.jpg.

If those files had the same content or were just a new version, the user would
either pick "save" and not "save as...", in case the cat became a dog or would
want to "select+rename" that filename because he wants to keep that old
version, i.e. dog.jpg -> dog and cat.jpg.

So the use-case, of using "save as..." to overwrite a file is far less likely
than the usecase of "save as.." to generate a new version of a document.

Autocompletion is for people using konsole, i.e. cannot be expected as
"everybody knows this".

If you really think this is expected behaviour, then you have to make sure that
the most common use-case is handled and not just implement something that falls
flat in terms of usability by ignoring the user's needs but being correct in
terms of single-click (which I doubt btw).

The user currently only gets a dialogue asking whether to "overwrite" or
"cancel", so where is the use-case of "rename"? It can be found in every other
KDE file-dialogue that tries to overwrite something, but is lacking here.
Surely not something that can be justified by the user chose single-click and
hence a usability bug.


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