Bug 366725

Summary: certain application icons and names in Recent Applications/History not shown, but icons are shown when typing to search
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: pitlochry <pitlochry>
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff)Assignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.8.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.8.2
Attachments: kickoff search by typing. Icon and Name shown
kickoff History. Icon and Name not shown, only blank placeholder
kickoff fullscreen search by typing. Icon and Name shown
kickoff fullscreen Recent Applications. Icon and Name not shown, only blank placeholder

Description pitlochry 2016-08-13 09:42:43 UTC 
Holds for both kickoff and kickoff fullscreen launcher.

There are certain applications, which show up their application icon and name, when you search them by typing, but which only have a blank placeholder (without icon and name), when you list them in "Recent Applications" (fullscreen launcher) or "History" (normal kickoff launcher).

By clicking the blank placeholder it opens the corresponding application, but right-clicking on the blank placeholder doesn't give the context menu (Add to favorites, Forget Application, Forget all Applications). So these placeholders can only be forgotten by forgetting all recent applications.

Many (perhaps all?) applications which do not show icon and name in "Recent Applications" are kcmshell5 applications (e.g. About System, Spell Check, Screen Locker, ...)

See screenshots. Persistent at least since Plasma 5.6


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open application launcher
2. type "about"
3. click "About System"
4. open application launcher, go to Recent Applications / History
5. Blank placeholder for "About System" can be seen



Could be reproduced on another system with plasma 5.7
Comment 1 pitlochry 2016-08-13 09:52:28 UTC 
Created attachment 100577 [details]
kickoff search by typing. Icon and Name shown
Comment 2 pitlochry 2016-08-13 09:53:21 UTC 
Created attachment 100578 [details]
kickoff History. Icon and Name not shown, only blank placeholder
Comment 3 pitlochry 2016-08-13 09:54:04 UTC 
Created attachment 100579 [details]
kickoff fullscreen search by typing. Icon and Name shown
Comment 4 pitlochry 2016-08-13 09:54:36 UTC 
Created attachment 100580 [details]
kickoff fullscreen Recent Applications. Icon and Name not shown, only blank placeholder
Comment 5 pitlochry 2016-10-14 07:41:51 UTC 
Still present on kde plasma 5.8.1, kde frameworks 5.27, qt 5.7, kernel 4.7.6-1ARCH on various systems.
Comment 6 pitlochry 2016-10-18 20:09:03 UTC 
Fixed in 5.8.2, yeah. Thank you very much.

See Plasma 5.8.2 Complete Changelog: Plasma Desktop: Let kicker display executable items instead of empty buttons (https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-desktop.git&a=commit&h=1d2984f8001de28cf25671d13a4be4b8322ec929)

This bug was partially a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369242.