I just extracted an archive which contained a file that I could not copy/edit/move/rename/delete with dolphin. The file was simple readme file inside a nested subdirectory called L'$'\351''ame.html'
The error messages in dolphin were extremely vague and did not indicate in an way that KDE and QT are incapable by design of handling files with these encoding. They did not inform the user why the file was causing these problems or even hint that they needed to be renamed in a terminal because of a WONTFIX on this bug. The only reason I knew what to do is because I encountered this bug years ago when operations on these files actually worked. Any normal user will have absolutely no idea what to do, and higher level systems will not handle these failures gracefully when these directory structures can't be modified because of a simple filename. The file or folder L'$'\351''ame.html' does not exist. - This is _false_ it does exist! Could not delete file L'$'\351''ame.html'. - No reason provided whatsoever. The user will not know how to solve this problem. Could not remove folder "". - All other files deleted, but the nested file was ignored leaving the user confused. This is ridiculous. It might be a lot of work, but a solution to this problem would be to store these strings as a tuple, where there is a degraded and user- friendly version of the string and the original unmodified string. If no changes are made to the string, use the original unmodified string. If the user decides to change the string, then they are interacting with the degraded version and deciding to keep that new string. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/510018 Title: Cannot delete file with bad filename To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kde-baseapps/+bug/510018/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
