There's a bug (IMHO, unless that's expected behavior ?) in the way KFileDialog remembers the last directory when a keyword (':myapplication') is specified for the start dir, e.g. : KFileDialog::getOpenURL(":ROSEGARDEN", "*.rg|Rosegarden-4 files\n*|All files", this, i18n("Open File")); The problem is that the last directory will be remembered properly only if it is visited for the first time. For instance, given two dirs foo/ and bar/ both containing files the app can load. If the user loads a file from foo/, then subsequent invocation of the file dialog will be set to foo/, no pb so far. If he then switches to bar/ and loads a file from there, the dialog will be set to bar/. But if he then tries to load a file from foo/ again, the dialog will remain set on bar/, which is most annoying. The bug is in KRecentDirs::add() : KConfig *config = recentdirs_readList(key, result, false); if (!result.contains(directory)) result.prepend(directory); Unless this is how it's supposed to work, I'd like to submit a patch so that if (result.contains(directory)) { result.remove(directory) result.prepend(directory) } so the last dir is properly remembered in all cases. Is that ok ? -- Guillaume. http://www.telegraph-road.org