Version: (using KDE 4.4.1) Installed from: openSUSE RPMs How to reproduce: 1) In the Places panel, select Root. 2) With the mouse, right-click Network. You should now have the context menu for Network open. 3) Select Add Entry. 4) Inspect the Edit Places Entry dialog that comes up. Expected result: Location should be "remote:/". Actual result: Location is "/". In other words, the behavior is as if I had right-clicked the currently selected item (Root). This is perhaps not very serious, since the existing item is not modified, but it is confusing.
Thanks for the report! IMHO, this is not a bug: If you select "Add Entry..." in the context menu of the Places Panel, the default "Location" in the dialog is the current folder, which happens to be "/" in your case. If I understand you correctly, you expect that the default "Location" in the dialog is the one of the entry you clicked on the Places Panel. However, it is rather pointless to add an entry which is already there, isn't it?
On second though, I think an empty Location field is what should be expected; you are right about it being pointless adding a second entry pointing to the same location. Showing the location of another item than the one I right-clicked made me think something was wrong. We have had other focus-and-context-menu-related bugs in Places, as you may remember.
Also, since the dialog is named "Edit Places Entry", I thought that I was modifying an entry, not adding a new one. IMO, the dialog should have another name when in add mode.
On third thought... You are of course right: It makes a lot of sense to default to the current directory.
I think what should be fixed is the issue from comment #3 with the confusing dialog name.
No apparent change in KDE 4.5.1 with regard to the dialog name.
The dialog naming issue is fixed in r1199217 (about an hour ago). I don't have permissions to close this bug.
As for the Bugzilla permissions, please file a sysadmin bug report or try asking for more karma on #kde-bugs.