[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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