https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505635
Bug ID: 505635
Summary: Opened picture vanishes when the file is unlinked from
the directory!
Classification: Applications
Product: gwenview
Version First 25.04.2
Reported In:
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
This is literally a joke we used to make about software in movies making no
sense! Because in movies, when they had a file open in a program, and removed
the medium or deleted the file, the document also vanished from the program.
Now it seems, somebody with just as absolutely not a single clue of computers
went, and deliberately implemented an imitation of that total insanity in
Gwenview! Because when having a picture open in it, and the file is unlinked
from the directory, the picture magically vanishes from the Gwenview window
too!! Despite the two having nothing to do with each other!
One is in-memory data loaded from an inode, and the other is a directory entry
that point to that inode.
Somebody actually wrote that! Meaning it wouldn’t be there if somebody *chose_
to ADD it. WTAF!!
Come on now, are we literally imitating the dumbest nonsense from movies now?
Are we living in the dumbest universe?
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Put a picture in a directory.
2. Open the picture with Gwenview.
3. Open the picture with any sane program too. (Try the oldest one you can
find. A plain hex editor if necessary.)
4. Unlink (“delete”) the file from the directory. (Or, to test, just move it to
a different directory.)
OBSERVED RESULT
5. The picture vanishes from Gwenview.
6. The picture is still perfectly fine in and other program because duh, it’s a
memory region, what does it care about the file system?
EXPECTED RESULT
Obviously, the picture should stay being displayed (and saveable too).
The program should not try to be “smart” or “automagic”. Because in no case
should it ever try to imitate a computer illiterate’s idea of good software
like in movies written by such clueless computer illiterates who only
understand Apple and the likes.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: Yes
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I’m angry, because being lax with this sort of things is precisely how the
Idiocracy is bred. Not ONE inch to this insanity!
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