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Dolphin suggests 'autocompletes' for folders but cannot open

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iamsorandom
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Hi,
I have noticed that when typing into the location bar, Dolphin suggests folders that are in the root of my home folder, eg: it comes up with a drop-down saying 'Music/' etc
(regardless of my current location i.e. if I'm in a sub-folder)

However, when I click on these, it tries to open e.g. http://music/ and an error message comes up saying 'Dolphin does not support web pages, the web browser has been launched'.

Anyone know what is going on here? If it could autocomplete folder names that would be great but this enticement to click on things that don't work is a bit confusing!
Thanks
airdrik
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That is an interesting "feature"

As for what's going on: When you edit the whole location, it expects you to provide the whole path or url, allowing you to use other KIO locations, such as activities:// fonts:// applications:// etc. The drop-down probably just has a bad assumption (bug) that it should auto-complete items in your home folder. Then when you do put something in there which isn't a valid uri (e.g. protocol://path/to/location) then it uses a default protocol for it (which http isn't the protocol I'd use as the default in dolphin)


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