While I have been unable to make this happen consistently, I have experienced this a few times already. At seemingly random times, KDE's application launcher will stop loading some applications, but not all. For the ones it decides to refuse to load, if I try to load them from a command line through 'kioclient exec <.desktop file here>', it will bring up a message box titled "Sorry" that says "Service '<.desktop file here>' is malformatted." I was unable to figure out how to be able to attach gdb to klauncher to determine why, but the message comes from the start_service function of KLauncher, located in kdelibs' kinit/klauncher.cpp. Because I could not debug it, I cannot fully determine if the reason is because service->isValid() is returning false or if it is because of request->arg_list.count() being 0, but those are only two places where the above message could happen. The .desktop files it does this on are ones that worked prior to KDE deciding to start bringing up the message. Even desktop-file-validate from desktop-file-utilities will usually give no errors from the .desktop file that klauncher is claiming is malformatted. So far, the only ways I have found around this problem were either a full reboot or even just running kdeinit4 to force it to get restarted. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: Unfortunately, I do not have a reproduction path. The only thing I was doing was going through every application in my application launcher and then spontaneously it started to fail to load some applications, at which point trying to execute the associated .desktop file from a command line with 'kioclient exec' gives the message from klauncher. Actual Results: Spontaneously, klauncher will stop loading some applications and running the associated .desktop file with 'kioclient exec' from a command line gives the message from klauncher. Expected Results: Normally, I would expect there to never be any problems with loading an application from the application launcher unless the actual application isn't loading due to a problem. I am using KDE 4.14.3 (that version was not in the above version selector) on FreeBSD 10.3/amd64. All components of KDE were compiled from the FreeBSD ports tree using the system's version of clang, version 3.4.1.
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