Steps: 1. Right click on desktop and select "Create New"> "Link to File or Directory" 2. Click on "Open file dialog" button and select "Directory" 3. Try to navigate and expands multiple folders Expected result: Any folder should be expanded if it contains another sub-directories. Observed result: Cannot expand folders. This happens only when folder selector is started from that desktop "Create Symlink" dialog, it doesn't happen on other cases. Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.113.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11 Kernel Version: 6.6.9-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
Can reproduce. This is an issue with the desktop:// ioworker as far as I can tell. I see desktop:// being inappropriately prepended to the path.
*** Bug 512218 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A potential fix is in progress with https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/2057.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3320
Git commit 71a628ab22ffc688b0acddb7befafaf6c3baef85 by Méven Car, on behalf of Lluc Simó Margalef. Committed on 30/11/2025 at 11:05. Pushed by meven into branch 'master'. Fix creating links to subdirectories of desktop links This commit request fixes a bug that caused the creation of invalid links to subdirectories of desktop links. The bug was caused by the use of a `desktop:/` URL as the base for the new link, which resulted in an invalid path. The fix is to use `mostLocalUrl()` to get the local file system path before creating the link dialog. This ensures that the `KUrlRequester` start path is valid and so removes the chance to create a non-working symlink. FIXED-IN: 6.21 M +6 -1 src/filewidgets/knewfilemenu.cpp https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/commit/71a628ab22ffc688b0acddb7befafaf6c3baef85