~/screen-configurations.xml file after kubuntu install

Running Kubuntu Beta.

> locate screen-configurations.xml
/home/liviu/screen-configurations.xml
/home/liviu/.local/screen-configurations.xml
> diff --brief /home/liviu/screen-configurations.xml /home/liviu/.local/screen-configurations.xml
>

Question: may I delete this file? I haven't tried it out, because I don't want to brake something.

And it's still present in the Daily Live CD of 19 April. While this might not have the highest priority, it is very untidy to have this file polluting our home directories. Hopefully this can be fixed before the final release.

I deleted this file and nothing bad happens.

[12:57:04] <apachelogger_> this magic file is soooo an incredibly stupid bug I almost had to smile despite the fact I don't feel like that today
[12:57:16] <JontheEchidna> heh
[12:57:25] <apachelogger_> so, please direct your attention on exhibit A
[12:57:30] <apachelogger_> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/kephal/configurations/xml/xmlconfigurations.cpp?view=markup​
[12:57:40] <apachelogger_> there we find
[12:57:41] <apachelogger_> QDir dir = QDir::home();
[12:57:41] <apachelogger_> dir.cd(".local");
[12:57:41] <apachelogger_> m_configPath = dir.filePath("screen-configurations.xml");
[12:58:14] <apachelogger_> now ... exhibit B: run cd .foobar123 in a shell ... what does happen?

Here is a patch for this bug (KDE 4.2.3), works for me.

This still happens on karmic koala alpha 2

Fix committed upstream: http://websvn.kde.org:80/?view=rev&revision=984358

Thanks Gökçen! I changed your patch to use qDebug and qWarning rather than their KDE implementations, since QDebug is used all accross that thingy already :)

Jonathan, please make sure this gets tested with a Live CD and KDE beta2 or a patched version of workspace.

test.scenario-1:
* Start CD with patched version of kdebase-workspace
* Check if home directory contains screen-configurations.xml file
* Check if .local/screen-configurations.xml exists

test.scenario-2:
* Logout
* Remove .local/screen-configurations.xml (only the file, not the directory)
* Login
* File should be available again, but not in home directly

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. Unfortunately a paper cut should be a small usability issue that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. I'm afraid this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.
A paper cut is a minor usability annoyance that an average user would encounter on his/her first day of using a new installation of Ubuntu 9.10.

Every Kubuntu user will encounter this after the first installation and wonder if it can be safely deleted, so I consider this a minor annoyance.

This will be fixed anyway, and now 100 other minor bugs will be fixed too, so setting this to invalid as a papercut isn't that bad.

Fix released to karmic.