[dolphin] [Bug 420966] After tab-completing to a path (or typing a trailing slash) and hitting enter, Dolphin instead navigates to the first suggested subdirectory of that path

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420966

--- Comment #16 from andydecleyre at gmail.com ---
So I think the old behavior was to complete a trailing slash, without
populating the completion with arbitrary subdirectories. Is there any way to
get that old behavior back? I am using the "dropdown list" completion style.

I appreciate that now arbitrary subdirectories are not navigated to all the
time as long as I use "dropdown list," but still my habits have been made wrong
now -- e.g. typing

    ~/Ima<tab>Wallp<tab>

used to get me to ~/Images/Wallpapers, at least for that since it's an
unambiguous completion, but now that fills the location bar with

    ~/ImagesWallp

and puts my focus inside the files pane.

Aside from the problem of breaking old habits, the new behavior of not
completing the trailing slash in an unambiguous case offers no benefit over the
original behavior and adds an extra inconvenience.

Since navigating to 

    ~/Images 

is the same as navigating to 

~/Images/ 

while the latter text makes it more convenient to navigate to a deeper path,
the latter should be preferred.

I will try to patch kcompletion for a personal build if this is not considered
a regression by others, to achieve

    /us<tab> -> /usr/ 

rather than 

    /us<tab> -> /usr

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