Bug 402820

Summary:	Unable to remove/unpin documents/apps from Application Menu after deleting the document/app from system
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Ivar Erikson <kiwimisc>
Component:	Application Menu (Kicker) widget	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugseforuns, mfraz74+kde, nate, plasma-bugs, qydwhotmail
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.14.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ivar Erikson 2019-01-03 13:26:12 UTC

SUMMARY

# First: I'm very unsure of where to file this bug. Please assign the correct Product, since I'm very likely in the wrong place. Thanks<3

# Issue:
When pinning an app to the Application Menu's Favourites sidebar, there's no simple "Unpin" option.
The only available is Right click > Show in favourites > unselect all checked activities

If you have an app or document pinned, then uninstall/delete said app/doc, it stays in the favourite bar, with no apparant way to remove it. Right click > Show in favourites > will show every activity unchecked.

With a deleted app I could "re-add" it to an activity, e.g. Default. Right click > Show in favourites > Select an activity (none are currently selected when deleted). Then Right click > Show in favourites > Un-check the activity and it's gone.

With a document, there's no such way. No matter what you click, this workaround won't work. You're stuck with the deleted document in your favourites bar.
The only way I found to circumvent this was to create a document with the same name in the same location, sort of tricking the shortcut in Favourites to think it wasn't deleted.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Pin document/app to Favourites in Application Menu
2. Delete document/app from the system
3. Try to remove the pinned document/app from Applications Menu > Favourites

OBSERVED RESULT
You can't unpin the document/app from Favourites.

EXPECTED RESULT
To be able to unpin.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 18.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.4
Qt Version: 5.11.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.52.0
Kernel Version: 4.18.0-13-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 31,4 GiB of RAM

Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2019-03-26 21:09:42 UTC

Confirmed here.

1. open a png file
2. open kicker > hover over "recent documents" 
3. right click on the file used in the step 1
4. click "Add to favorites"
5. delete the file used in the step 1
6. open kicker, right click on the favorite created in the step 4
7. click "Remove from favorites"

Result: the favorite is not removed

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.56.0
Qt Version: 5.12.2

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-06-25 19:44:54 UTC

Can confirm with current git master.

Comment 3 Mark Fraser 2024-01-27 07:43:43 UTC

Still there in KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10.
Only way to delete it is to manually edit
.config/kactivitymanagerd-statsrc
Log out and then log back in again.