instead always the home folder of the user is opened. This is annoying if you edit files in a remote directory, accessed via fish://. With plasma 5.8.4 there was no issue.
I have this BUG too and it is really annoying - open command on any file opened remotely via sftp://, fish://, ... did previously open the same location and now it opens home folder. Open on local files works ok. OpenSuse Tumbleweed + Plasma 5.8.5
This is still occurring in full kate git checkout from 2 weeks ago. I did some tracing - the bug appears to be in the QFileDialog static function getOpenFileUrls() . I was testing with fish open'ed files, and the correct fish url is passed in the dir param for getOpenFileUrls. You can even force in the fish and file scheme - and it will still default to the users home directory. May need to re-assign this from Kate to the which-ever Bug tracking component would cover base level Qt function issues.
*** Bug 378699 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 378636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 374913 ***