[arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqueto at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 14:15:31 EST 2012


On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> 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?

In my tests, it worked as it should. The file got the right name, just
like I typed it.

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