SUMMARY This has been happening for a while and recently it got broken on everywhere I could test with Folder View. Plasma prompts to open the .desktop and .kdelnk set as type Application as files instead of launching the program, usually opening Kate. If no default program is set, it prompts the user to select a program to open the file with. This issue happens with existing .desktop and .kdelnk files as well as the ones created using Plasma's own daemon to create a Link to Application. But again, that only happens with Application type. The Link type launches Dolphin just fine, as it is expected to STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Just try double clicking any .desktop or .kdelnk file from a Folder View OBSERVED RESULT Plasma either opens the file to be edited on the default plain text editor or prompts the user to open on another application EXPECTED RESULT The desired application to be launched SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20211005 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.14.6-2-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-7020U CPU @ 2.30GHz Memory: 11.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Build coming from KDE Unstable Repos for openSUSE Tumbleweed.
Only in Folder View? It doesn't happen in Dolphin or one of the file dialogs?
Also can you attach a sample file that is affected for you so we can test with the same data?
Created attachment 142258 [details] File I created from Brave that is a .desktop Here is a file created by Brave as a shortcut to Netflix but turns out that happens with every Application Type as well, so it also happened with the ones coming with the system, like Dolphin. The way I tested them was by double clicking them on the applications list kioslave, the applications:/
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Only in Folder View? It doesn't happen in Dolphin or one of the file dialogs? I tested here by trying to open several of them on the applications:/ kioslave (I think I got that name right) then on the /usr/share/applications but both had the same result as trying to open from the Folder View on the shell
I mean, if you open Dolphin and navigate to the location of the file in question and open it, does the same thing happen that happens when you open it in Folder View?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5) > I mean, if you open Dolphin and navigate to the location of the file in > question and open it, does the same thing happen that happens when you open > it in Folder View? It does. I also tested with existing ones that come with the system and the same thing happens.
OK thanks. Moving to KIO, then.
I've just encountered this today. And it was working as intended for me, for sometime, until i changed an applications icon today. That seemingly broke it. Now kioslave applications:/ & programs:/ just open the .desktop file with kate. More concerning is the change in behaviour is systemwide, all users, new & existing. No files changed within user /home/ during period of icon change are relevant, mime-type of ḋesktop files is still seemingly application/x-desktop
KInfo: Operating System: Kubuntu 25.04 KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0 Qt Version: 6.8.3 Kernel Version: 6.14.0-24-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5500 Memory: 15,5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7600 Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: B550M DS3H System Version: -CF