When renaming a folder that has a dot in its name Dolphin treats it as a file extension separator and only highlights the part before it. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: Dots in folder names should not be treated any special when renaming them.
Thanks for the report, I can confirm this issue.
related with commit 6207525f for bug 301893
Created attachment 72528 [details] bug fix diff for bug 303375 This patch fixes the problem. Also rename selection of files without mime-type is fixed (actual upstream state: no selection ->state with patch: whole file name is selected)
Git commit 379d94eab637ebb1a9a0c78f4b5e8ab345af6460 by David Faure. Committed on 20/07/2012 at 12:09. Pushed by dfaure into branch 'KDE/4.9'. Fix bug 303375 - Dots in directory names treated as file extension. Patch by Emmanuel Pescosta <emmanuelpescosta099@gmail.com> REVIEW: 105575 FIXED-IN: 4.9.0 M +31 -0 dolphin/src/kitemviews/kfileitemlistwidget.cpp M +5 -0 dolphin/src/kitemviews/kfileitemlistwidget.h M +8 -16 dolphin/src/kitemviews/kstandarditemlistwidget.cpp M +13 -0 dolphin/src/kitemviews/kstandarditemlistwidget.h M +3 -1 dolphin/src/views/renamedialog.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-baseapps/379d94eab637ebb1a9a0c78f4b5e8ab345af6460