[arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk
Ralf Mardorf
ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Fri Mar 9 13:30:40 EST 2012
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 12:49 -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Been seeing a weird quirk with KDE's konqueror recently. Was wondering
> if this is something unique to my personal configuration, or if it's an
> upstream bug that needs to be filed. Can some KDE user confirm?
>
> 1) Launch konqueror in file manager mode. e.g.:
>
> [darose at daroselin ~]$ konqueror /tmp
>
> 2) Go to the right pane, which lists the files in /tmp. Find an empty
> area in the pane and right-click on it. (i.e., don't right-click on a
> file) That pops up a menu.
> 3) Select "Create New". That pops up a sub-menu.
> 4) Select "Text File ...". That pops up a box to enter the file name.
> 5) Enter a file name of (for example) "foobar.txt".
> 6) The file that gets created is "foobar.txt.desktop".
> 7) WTF?!?!?!?!?!?
>
> Anyone else seeing this behavior too?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DR
I've got Xfce only installed. Konqueror does behave the same way here. I
just installed kdebase-konqueror a minute ago and didn't change any
settings.
- Ralf
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