Right Click => Create New => Basic Link to File or Directory => Browse This does not show files in the browser dialog, only directories Reproducible: Always
I can confirm this using Arch Linux, KDE Frameworks 5.21.0 and Dolphin 16.03.90 (built against qt 5.6.0). One can create links to folders but not to files. Links created with ln -s don't work properly with Dolphin. Using Konqueror to create links works fine (Dialog shows both files and folders).
Workarounds etc. at the KDE Forums: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=224&t=132415&p=355420#p355420
Kubuntu 16.04, Dolphin 15.12.3, Linux (x86_64) release 4.4.0-21-generic. There is no way to pick a file, but the workaround https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=224&t=132415&p=355420#p355420 works: to copy the filepath, but this is against the whole point of using this way to create a symlink.
Same issue here... Hoping this gets a second look since it hasn't had any activity for a while.
Maybe this is caused by qt5. I reported it to qt bugtracker. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-56802
Sorry, #5 was wrong...
Same bug on KDE on Ubuntu 16.04.1 with Dolphin 15.12.3 and KDE Frameworks 5.18.0 and Qt 5.5.1 (compiled with 5.5.1) and Plasma 5.5.5
This dialog is provided by KIO. The bug should be in KNameAndUrlInputDialog.
I did some investigation in Bug 369611 and as currently implemented, we'd need some Qt changes (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-720): currently the Qt file picker only allows the display of either files or directories, not both. Absend an upstream fix, we'd need to redo the UI here to first prompt the user to choose whether to make a link to an application, file, or directory.
*** Bug 369611 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 390190 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Git commit 95d0b44a3837a9e121ab90fdec8a239422d713fd by Nate Graham, on behalf of Robert Hoffmann. Committed on 24/05/2019 at 05:18. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Fix desktop link to file or directory Summary: KUrlRequester: Show a popup to select between File and Directory before displaying the file dialog. Test Plan: Right click onto desktop, select 'Create new' and then 'Basic link to file or directory' or 'Link to Location (URL)'. Click the file selection icon. A popup is displayed. If 'File' is selected, a file dialog is displayed, showing files and directories, allowing the selection of a file. If 'Directory' is selected, a file dialog is displayed, showing only directories, allowing the selection of a directory. Without the patch, no popup is displayed, only directories are shown in the file dialog and only a directory can be selected. FIXED-IN: 5.59 Reviewers: #frameworks, ngraham, dfaure Reviewed By: ngraham, dfaure Subscribers: bruns, michaelweghorn, ngraham, kde-frameworks-devel Tags: #frameworks Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D20197 M +73 -28 src/widgets/kurlrequester.cpp https://commits.kde.org/kio/95d0b44a3837a9e121ab90fdec8a239422d713fd
*** Bug 408077 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***