f62768d04652 in qtbase.git introduced a behavior change in QUrl
causing it to reject URLs with a path of "//foo" (note the double
slash) as invalid.
Both KNewFileMenu and KIO::mkpath contained code following this
pattern:
url.path() + '/' + name
This is a bad mix with forwarding slaves like kio_desktop, which
translate a top-level path of / to some other URL:
(desktop:)/ + / + foo = //foo
This patch addresses the two instances of this by wrapping the
string building in QDir::cleanPath, which I think is the shortest
and most readable way to go.
2353119aae8f in kio.git (D8836) was another commit fixing fallout
from this Qt change. Is unlikely this patch will be the last one.
I suspect many other variations of this problem lurk about the
codebase.
BUG:387073