SUMMARY *** Navigating to root using location bar does not work. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open dolphin 2. Click on location bar 3. Press Ctrl+A 4. type / 5. press enter OBSERVED RESULT The location does not change EXPECTED RESULT The location should change to the root SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0 Qt Version: 5.15.6 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I can confirm, and it is pretty severe IMO. It was probably introduced in a recent update. I use Arch Linux, only noticed it today. It is easier to reproduce by right clicking the address bar and setting "Text Completion" to "None". This way, actually nothing works. You can try to type "/", "/etc/", "/bin", "~" nothing works. Sometimes it starts working again, seemingly random. But if you close Dolphin and open it again, the bug is always back. It is actually not a Dolphin bug, as it also happens on the Open/Save file dialogs that use the same URL location bar all over KDE apps. I suspected KIO, however I tried compiling some old KIO commit and I could not get rid of the bug.
*** Bug 459083 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It seems to be fixed for me now. I don't know how or who fixed it, but I cannot reproduce it anymore after updating everything to the latest version. I'm now on plasma 5.26.3, frameworks 5.100.0, Dolphin 22.08.3. So I'm closing.