D8208: [WIP] Add Duplicate feature

[Matej Mrenica]

mthw added a comment.


  In D8208#585704 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D8208#585704>, @fazevedo wrote:
  
  > I'm a bit surprised by all the bad comments concerning an useful feature.
  >  Are you taking people for dumbs that can not understand duplicate would
  >  copy/paste in one go in the source location? macOS has such feature for
  >  years and nobody comes complaining disk would have failed. Also, it does
  >  not mean people will use it many times per day. I personally use duplicate
  >  feature a lot and really miss it from dolphin.
  
  
  +1
  
  In D8208#591210 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D8208#591210>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > I don't really understand the concern here, to be honest. It seems like making a mountain out of a molehill. Yes, unneeded writes to SSDs should be avoided, but this feature will surely account for less than one millionth of a percent of all the unneeded writes to a user's SSD. If the user creates a duplicate of a file on an SSD and then moves the duplicated file to an external disk, then yes, an unneeded copy has taken place, but this is something the user could already do half a dozen other ways today. It seems odd to focus on this.
  
  
  +1
  
  Yes, unneeded writes are bad, but let the user worry about that. If they want to duplicate their files, let them. This seems like a useful feature. Also one time warning message wont hurt anybody.
  I wonder how many times a day would someone have to use this feature to have any noticable effect on their SSD. Aren't recent SSD more imune (or imune enough) to this anyway?

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