Bug 424432

Summary:	Autocomplete makes it very hard to navigate folders
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Michał <mcv>
Component:	bars: location	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	kfm-devel, mattioli.fernando, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Michał 2020-07-19 16:46:49 UTC

SUMMARY
The way autocomplete works have been changed recently (I don't know exactly when, I do updates rarely). Now, when autocomplete suggests something and user presses enter after entering a valid path in Dolphin, it navigates to the autocompleted path, instead of the one that user entered.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Have folders like this:
/mnt/nas/
/mnt/nas-backup/
(It's possible that Dolphin has to learn the possibilities, so perhaps manual entering both paths is needed as a precondition).

2. In Dolphin, press Ctrl+L to enter the path to go to. Type "/mnt/nas", press Enter.

OBSERVED RESULT
Dolphin goes to /mnt/nas-backup instead of /mnt/nas, because autocomplete have suggested "/mnt/nas-backup".

EXPECTED RESULT
Dolphin navigates to what user entered: /mnt/nas.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Dolphin 20.04.2
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.71.0
Qt Version: 5.15.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This kind of autocompletion would be OK, if there was no ambiguity, but in case of one, it should not kick in.

Comment 1 Michał 2020-07-19 16:49:24 UTC

Just to add, adding slash after the entered path doesn't help at all. When I type "/mnt/nas/" Dolphin goes to autosuggested first directory within /mnt/nas, in my case it's "/mnt/nas/ backup".

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-07-19 21:57:50 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 420966 ***