[arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 03/09/2012 01:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks for the confirmation Ralf.  Time to try to track this down 
upstream then.

DR