If the directory you want is buried in a long path (that you cannot recall), you cannot type part of the path and hit the "return key" without the dialog accepting that as "ok load everything below this path".

What I want to do in this case is navigate to that path, then start clicking on folders for the rest of the path.

This makes it hard to jump to another mount point if it does not show up in the gui (for instance on the Mac, all my remote filesystems are under /Volumes but /Volumes is accessible directly from the gui).

2c3bbb7 which includes commontk/CTK@c4f1eee, it was changed for the directory selection to use the OS level native file dialog rather than a custom Qt one. This should resolve the original reporter's issue as you can type part of the path in the Windows Native File Dialog address area and press "Enter" and that will go into the path and not choose that as the selection and attempt to load everything in there.