Cherry Pick Request for Frameworks 6.20 (and possibly 5 too?)

[Akseli Lahtinen]

On Wednesday 12 November 2025 15:25:22 Eastern European Standard Time Oliver 
Schramm wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> the following commit unfortunately didn't make it quite in time for the
> Frameworks 6.20  tagging. So I wanted to ask, if you could cherry-pick it.
> And maybe even add it to a possible KF5 bugfix release, should there ever
> come one still. (Maybe you're collecting patches for 18 months, I don't
> know! 😅)
> 
> Reason:
> It fixes a very unexpected behaviour that could lead to data loss.
> When users want to move a file to trash and the file is too big for the
> trash, the file instead gets deleted. If users have confirmations before
> deleting disabled, this will happen *without additional warning*!
> 
> Because users probably do want a file gone they are moving to trash, I
> wouldn't say this is emergency-bugfix worthy. However, users *would* be
> able to restore a file if it's in trash. But since the app possibly does
> something the user doesn't want, the user won't have this choice anymore.
> 
> This is also mentioned in the referenced bug:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475235
> 
> At the same time, it is a very unrisky bugfix, which only adds four lines of
> code. One for forcing the confirmation, three for disabling the "don't ask
> again"-checkbox which would save a wrong value.
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/commit/52253584cd9e69a9920fa4396076a
> 7b8c33c13f2
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Greetings,
> Oliver

Hi, if you think it's something distros should know about, you can also email 
about this in kde-distributions mailing list (if you haven't yet).

- Akseli
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