Konsole does not retain config customisations across sessions

[Rob Fargher]

Release: Kubuntu 16,10
Package version:konsole: Installed: 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1

Expected behaviour: Editing the default profile for konsole to change the background colour and font works for the duration of the current session. I expected that these config changes would be persistant across re-booting.

Actual behaviour: Upon re-booting, konsole has reverted to the default settings.

 Upon a fresh install of 16.10 today and editing the konsole profile yet again, I finally got a pop-up window telling me that $HOME/.local/share/applicatins/desktop/ cannot be written to. That's because $HOME/.local/share/applications/ doesn't exist. Creating that directory fixed the issue.