SVN commit 1174616 by adawit:

- Allow the creation of files/directories that start with "~".

BUG:117473


 M  +9 -2      knewfilemenu.cpp  


--- trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kfile/knewfilemenu.cpp #1174615:1174616
@@ -723,9 +723,16 @@
     QString name = m_text;
     
     if (!name.isEmpty()) {
-      if ((name[0] == '/') || (name[0] == '~')) {
+      // Expand any tilde mark that might have been specified...
+      const QString expandedName = KShell::tildeExpand(name);
+
+      // When a tilde mark cannot be properly expanded, the above call returns
+      // an empty string ; so we handle that scenario here...
+      if (!expandedName.isEmpty())
+        name = expandedName;
+
+      if ((name[0] == '/'))
 	url.setPath(KShell::tildeExpand(name));
-      } 
       else {
 	if (!m_viewShowsHiddenFiles && name.startsWith('.')) {
 	  if (!writeHiddenDir) {