As noted in Issue #400093 ("Dolphin crashes on startup on invalid XML config file."), my ~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/dolphin/dolphinui.rc has become corrupted (thus leading to an initially-mysterious inability to start Dolphin without it immediately crashing) even though I have not made any edits to the file.

I am aware there are other potential and theoretical causes for this. However, when an application-specific config file is corrupted, it's usually (even if not always) the application itself that corrupted it, since after all, that's the software that's most likely to touch the given file the most often.

Therefore, I am reporting it here so the developers are aware and can be on the lookout for anything suspect in the code.

As in the other issue (#400093), I am pasting the corrupted file contents below.

I looks to me like something must have done the following:

1. Loaded the file into a buffer.
2. Wrote a shorter version of the data into the same buffer.
3. Failed to correctly set the new shorter length of the buffer.
4. Wrote the newly-garbled buffer back out to disk.

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<!DOCTYPE kpartgui SYSTEM 'kpartgui.dtd'>
<kpartgui name="dolphin" version="21">
 <MenuBar>
  <Menu name="file">
   <Action name="new_menu"/>
   <Action name="file_new"/>
   <Action name="new_tab"/>
   <Action name="file_close"/>
   <Action name="undo_close_tab"/>
   <Separator/>
   <Action name="renamefile"/>
   <Action name="movetotrash"/>
   <Action name="deletefile"/>
   <Separator/>
   <Action name="show_target"/>
   <Separator/>
   <Action name="properties"/>
  </Menu>
  <Menu name="edit">
   <Action name="edit_select_all"/>
   <Action name="invert_selection"/>
  </Menu>
  <Menu name="view">
   <Action name="sort"/>
   <Action name="view_mode"/>
   <Action name="additional_info"/>
   <Action name="show_preview"/>
   <Action name="show_in_groups"/>
   <Action name="show_hidden_files"/>
   <Separator/>
   <Action name="split_view"/>
   <Action name="split_stash"/>
   <Action name="redisplay"/>
   <Action name="stop"/>
   <Separator/>
   <Action name="panels"/>
   <Menu name="location_bar">
    <text context="@title:menu">Location Bar</text>
    <Action name="editable_location"/>
    <Action name="replace_location"/>
   </Menu>
   <Separator/>
   <Action name="view_properties"/>
  </Menu>
  <Menu name="go">
   <Action name="closed_tabs"/>
  </Menu>
  <Menu name="tools">
   <Action name="show_filter_bar"/>
   <Action name="open_terminal"/>
   <Action name="compare_files"/>
   <Action name="change_remote_encoding"/>
  </Menu>
 </MenuBar>
 <ToolBar name="mainToolBar" alreadyVisited="1" noMerge="1">
  <text context="@title:menu" translationDomain="dolphin">Main Toolbar</text>
  <Action name="go_back"/>
  <Action name="go_forward"/>
  <Action name="go_up"/>
  <Action name="reload"/>
  <Separator name="separator_0"/>
  <Action name="icons"/>
  <Action name="compact"/>
 </ToolBar>
 <State name="new_file">
  <disable>
   <Action name="edit_undo"/>
   <Action name="edit_redo"/>
   <Action name="edit_cut"/>
   <Action name="edit_copy"/>
   <Action name="renamefile"/>
   <Action name="movetotrash"/>
   <Action name="deletefile"/>
   <Action name="invert_selection"/>
   <Separator/>
   <Action name="go_back"/>
   <Action name="go_forward"/>
  </disable>
 </State>
 <State name="has_selection">
  <enable>
   <Action name="edit_cut"/>
   <Action name="edit_copy"/>
   <Action name="renamefile"/>
   <Action name="movetotrash"/>
   <Action name="deletefile"/>
   <Action name="invert_selection"/>
  </enable>
 </State>
 <State name="has_no_selection">
  <disable>
   <Action name="edit_cut"/>
   <Action name="edit_copy"/>
   <Action name="renamefile"/>
   <Action name="movetotrash"/>
   <Action name="deletefile"/>
   <Action name="delete_shortcut"/>
   <Action name="invert_selection"/>
  </disable>
 </State>
 <ActionProperties scheme="Default">
  <Action name="go_back" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="go_forward" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="go_up" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="go_home" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="stop" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="icons" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="compact" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="details" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="view_zoom_in" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="view_zoom_out" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="edit_cut" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="edit_copy" priority="0"/>
  <Action name="edit_paste" priority="0"/>
 </ActionProperties>
</kpartgui>
zoom_in"/>
  <Action priority="0" name="view_zoom_out"/>
  <Action priority="0" name="edit_cut"/>
  <Action priority="0" name="edit_copy"/>
  <Action priority="0" name="edit_paste"/>
 </ActionProperties>
</kpartgui>
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