diff -ruN ktextwidgets-5.29.0-orig/src/widgets/ktextedit.cpp ktextwidgets-5.29.0/src/widgets/ktextedit.cpp
--- ktextwidgets-5.29.0-orig/src/widgets/ktextedit.cpp	2016-12-03 15:11:28.000000000 -0600
+++ ktextwidgets-5.29.0/src/widgets/ktextedit.cpp	2016-12-26 17:08:52.000000000 -0600
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
           lastReplacedPosition(-1)
     {
         //Check the default sonnet settings to see if spellchecking should be enabled.
-        QSettings settings(QStringLiteral("KDE"), QStringLiteral("Sonnet"));
+        QSettings settings(QSettings::IniFormat, QSettings::UserScope, QStringLiteral("KDE"), QStringLiteral("Sonnet"));
         spellCheckingEnabled = settings.value(QStringLiteral("checkerEnabledByDefault"), false).toBool();
 #ifdef HAVE_SPEECH
         textToSpeech = new QTextToSpeech(parent);