The behavior of kdialog -getexistingdirectory seems to have changed after the last update to version 23.04.0.
Previously, when I passed /example/dir as a parameter, the dialog with directory tree appeared and the passed directory was automatically selected, so I could confirm with ok.
Now the dialog opens and it shows the content of the passed directory and I have to go back one level and then select the directory and confirm with ok.
How do I get the old behavior back?
This problem is reported in issue ticket 472715 – KDialog shows file selector instead of folder selector
As far as I can tell there is no way to get the old behavior back - except maybe through a fix to bug 472715.
Are you sure that bug report is chasing up the right tree…
The commit that apparently was the cause was merged 6 years ago - and was contained in 17.04.3 and on… Surely it would have been noticed before now…
Are you sure it isn’t closer to this - which addresses - and I quote “some systems” … Maybe it screws up others that were acting correctly for 6 years?
I’m pretty sure that isn’t it - changing the “file mode” is a very minor change (read the FileMode docs here) - it doesn’t change the whole look and feel of the dialog, but even if it did - it looks like changing from “any file” to “directory” should have been a move in the right direction.
Regardless, I wrote, tested and pushed an MR for (kind of) reverting 633667a373a690e636c6d7c231c0d9700f62473b and that looks to do what was requested: have a directory tree selector.
@Angus I stand fully corrected. QFileDialog that the commit I pointed at added is the correct approach, but MR 17 you’ve pointed it added the FileMode in the wrong place - when it was added after setOptions(), it reset the options and caused QFileDialog to not use the directory only selector.
Possibly, or it worked at the time and Qt had a behavior change 
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Anyway, I fixed the MR to fix the problem.
This issue has now been solved in the repository, but will probably only be fixed for Plasma 6.
