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What I constantly miss is the following function:

I usually have documents open and dolphin (filemanager) to handle the files.

Instead of using 'Save As' (and clicking through the whole directory tree to my already open dir) I'd prefer to just click on a 'handle' in the program i use (e.g. Kate or KOffice or even OpenOffice), drag the 'handle' to the directory in dolphin where I want the document to be saved and there release the mousebutton. very simple, very intuitive.

You can do the same in Webbrowsers (Opera e.g.) where you can drag and drop the favicon of the site (in the address-line) to your bookmarks and have the site bookmarked.

Perhaps this should be a system function (of the window) to not be dependend from Java or the programmers providing the function. Drag and Drop this 'handle' icon could also open the 'Save As' dialog already in the right directory, what would be a workaround for OpenOffice...

Nice idea. It could be simple as dragging the save/save as... icon.

This looks like a duplicate of another idea:
brainstorm.php#idea45280

It is the same idea. And the other one is nearly one year old.

I think the basic idea is: let every instance of every application that can hold one or more files be basically a file manager with exactly the files to drag&drop it holds.

I quite like this idea. There should be an icon either in the window decoration (probably aesthetically bad) or in the main toolbar that allows one to treat the open file in whatever program as you would its icon in a file manager such as Dolphin. The icon should just be the icon for that particular mime type.

I agree the ideas are similar, but not necessarily the same thing the way I read them. The other idea is about copying a file from one location on disk (a real disk or a kio slave) to another location on disk. This idea is about saving a working copy of a file in memory to a particular location on disk. They could UI be implemented in a similar (although not identical) manner but I do not they are not the same idea. I do think they are both good ideas, though.