Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.5.0) OS: Linux (Don‘t know which component is responsible for the Create-New-File-Menu) If you want to create a symlink, it does - of course - only allow to create a link to a local real existing file, not a remote one or pseudo-file in desktop:/- or trash:/-protocols. If you try to create a symlink to "trash:/" for example it just warns that you may not do that and better use “create link to URL”. It would provide better user experience if it just asked whether to create a link to URL instead, as the basic inputs are the same (Link name and the destination it‘s pointing to) Reproducible: Always
Hmm, this seems to have regressed since it was originally reported. As of KDE Frameworks 5.45, [Create New > Basic link to file or directory > enter "trash:/" as the path] will now blindly create an invalid symlink instead of even warning you. :/ Perhaps what we should really do is have one "Create link" item that's intelligent enough to figure out how to create the link irrespective of whether you specify a local path, a remote path, a web URL, a URL to a KIOSlave, or anything else that's linkable.
*** Bug 330204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***