An old bug, actually; I found reports from 2006/2007, but apparently nothing recent. On my Ubuntu 12.10, KNotes opens an empty note on startup. The startup commande is "/usr/bin/knotes". On my other machine running Ubuntu 12.04, the startup command is the same, but the application just starts without opening a new note and sits up top next to the watch. Reproducible: Always
Confirmed, and this is a highly annoying "feature", I don't want to get cluttered with new empty notes on every start up. Please remove this, it is not really useful.
The problem has suddenly vanished, no explanation. I did not even try and do something about it (wouldn't be able to anyway, no IT background). Strange ...
I can reproduce this on every new start of KDE, Knotes is started automatically as it is in the autostart list, KDE 4.10.0, Kubuntu 12.10
... and here we go again. I created a new note yesterday which I deleted again later, and when I started up the machine today, knotes created an empty note again.
(In reply to comment #4) > ... and here we go again. I created a new note yesterday which I deleted > again later, and when I started up the machine today, knotes created an > empty note again. Why does this surprise you? AFAIK you didn't change your version, and I haven't seen any commits in that direction. It is reproducible in a very reliable way: on every knotes start after a KDE restart I get a new empty note.
Still happens on 13.04. There seems to be a workaround: rather than deleting all empty notes created by KNotes, keep one of them and hide it. Once it has a note to take care of, KNotes seems to be happy and calm down.
Git commit 312e4da0a813a8879031ff54c7fb1aad85371c45 by Montel Laurent. Committed on 29/10/2013 at 06:25. Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'master'. Fix Bug 314825 - KNotes opens an empty note on startup FIXED-IN: 4.12 M +3 -0 knotes/knotesapp.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/312e4da0a813a8879031ff54c7fb1aad85371c45