Bug 487768

SUMMARY
When a new text file is created through Dolphin or any system dialog, the text file created is not completely empty -- it contains a space and a newline.

I presume the purpose of this is to make the thumbnail preview images look better, as the thumbnail of a completely empty text file does look different. However, the space is unnecessary for this. A text file containing a space and a newline is completely indistinguishable from a text file containing only a newline, when looking at the thumbnail preview.

Meanwhile, the space at the beginning of the document can be annoying sometimes. If you open the text file in Kate and forget to delete that space first, Kate will assume the leading space indicates indentation and it will indent every subsequent line the same way, adding an unnecessary leading space to every line. (This is particularly annoying when using this workflow to create a phyton script, where indentation matters.)

The text file is created using the template here:
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/blob/master/src/new_file_templates/TextFile.txt?ref_type=heads
This is a very minor issue, yes, but all that would be required to fix it is to remove the space character in that file.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Dolphin to a directory with write access
2. Right click --> create new --> text document
3. Open the text document

OBSERVED RESULT
The text document contains an unnecessary space character. (That character can be removed without affecting the thumbnail preview of the file, as long as the following newline is retained.)

EXPECTED RESULT
The text document contains only a newline. (So it won't cause unnecessary indentation confusion in any text editor, and so that the newly created blank text document is truly blank.)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu Studio 22.04 |6.5.0-25-lowlatency
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3