[arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Fri Mar 9 14:35:23 EST 2012


On 03/09/2012 02:15 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm ... interesting.  So maybe it is something specific to my config 
after all.

Are you using the latest version of konqueror?  (4.8.1)

Thanks,

DR


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